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by thundergolfer 2399 days ago
There's a lot of.. weird stuff in here.

- The idea that Apple, Amazon, and Google entering into healthcare would be taking healthcare services "away from centralized gatekeepers." What?

- Two lines about Climate Change in the whole post, and the 2nd is "We’ll remember this as the decade of unfortunate procrastination." That's quite the understatement.

- "We’ve also had more equal access to the good parts of economic growth." This needs explanation. Who is "we"? What are the "good parts" and the "bad parts" of growth?

- "Everything has gone from centralized to distributed." No, not everything. In many important ways the opposite has happened. eg. corporate conglomeration.

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thanks for the critical feedback and thoughts.

as another poster put it, perhaps disintermediation would be a better word to describe it. Individuals now have power to do things that they didn't before, or for much cheaper. Can see this happening in healthcare once 'big tech' is involved. It will be good for healthcare costs at least in the United States.

any suggestions to improve it? or do you think the decade will be remembered for totally different things?

Decentralization in healthcare is basically not going to happen unless the US stops giving tax exemptions for employer-provided health insurance.