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by IIIIIIIIIIIIIII 3047 days ago
Logan's Run [0] (still a great movie even watching it today - especially the cats [1] :-) ) - that society sure had the lowest health care expenses on the entire planet in its fictional universe of a future earth (a statement even more true since it probably was the only one, haha).

By the way, if we want to "cut costs" we could just blow up the planet and be done with it. No more "costs". What bizarre discussions we are having these days. "Cost cutting" makes sense in narrow(er) contexts, when the goal is clear and various paths to get there are explored, but for societal meaning-of-everything goal setting? If we didn't have health care we would not need to pay for it. That's true for everything ever made by humans. On this planet one person's cost is another persons's income, until we find aliens to trade with.

People already exist (and in huge numbers!) - what do we do with them? They may as well work as doctors and nurses and in the many industries supplying the health care sector. Or they could just hang around and play games, produce meme videos for Youtube, or become insurance agents or financial advisers (but of course, without "costs" somewhere there is not much to invest in... unless we become more of a "virtual society" and just have "money" building and feeding on itself without actual real-world connection).

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/

[1] https://youtu.be/sax6J8n1AiE

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PS: Completely unrelated issue, just for fun search for "Logan's run" on Youtube, filter by "length > 20 minutes", and check out a few of the many results. You can do that for lots of movies, especially popular older ones. Does it seem like Youtube is overrun by millions (must be millions overall, for all kinds of movies) of fake "movies", hours-long fake movies? Doesn't that waste huge amounts of Youtube storage? Why does Google not do anything about it, ML algorithms should have an easy time finding most of those uploads?

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> Does it seem like Youtube is overrun by millions (must be millions overall, for all kinds of movies) of fake "movies"

This is done intentionally by studios and fully sanctioned by Google, the intention is to pollute search results of known titles so that users ultimately become frustrated enough to simply purchase the movie.

> PS: Completely unrelated issue, just for fun search for "Logan's run" on Youtube, filter by "length > 20 minutes", and check out a few of the many results. ... Doesn't that waste huge amounts of Youtube storage? Why does Google not do anything about it, ML algorithms should have an easy time finding most of those uploads?

It's been prevalent for many years now. The files are typically a single image for the majority of the video, so compression should alleviate the storage issue.

These videos are likely very profitable for YouTube if ad-supported, given that they'll take very little data to store and serve.

I doubt the movie studios significantly care about removing them; the videos significantly frustrate pirates, likely causing a slight conversion to actual sales. To note: these results often appear on the ContentID dashboards (causing frustration for the studios), so this may be subject to change in future.

[0] https://torrentfreak.com/fake-pirate-movies-annoy-pirates-an...

[1] http://www.voxindie.org/ywhy-is-youtube-such-a-garbage-dump/

[2] http://www.voxindie.org/why-doesnt-youtube-address-the-real-...