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"machine screws and futures contracts come in standard sizes, without which manufacturing and finance would be as inefficient as health care."

oh lord. the finance industry does not even have a standardized way to transmit prices of securities. there is an enormous amount of inefficiency in the most basic behind the scenes systems..

My only real hope is the generation born after 2010, who all grow up playing video games where you get universal basic income and free healthcare laying around on the street in crates and boxes. And those things both actually work, they are not bug ridden half-finished projects that constantly crash and break. They will hopefully try to implement these things once they gain power.