America Is Running Out of Everything The global supply chain is slowing down at the very moment when Americans are demanding that it go into overdrive. By Derek Thompson
America Is Running Out of Everything The global supply chain is slowing down at the very moment when Americans are demanding that it go into overdrive. By Derek Thompson
Just love the chef's kiss at the end of quoting Ezra Klein and "Supply-Side Progressivism".
"Maybe instead of trying to redistribute scarce resources, we increase the supply for everyone. Which is why socialists and progressives should push for YIMBYism and reduced zoning regulations to allow a greater housing supply" - Ezra Klein, pretty much
Liberals just love this Voxism of "What if we try to solve problems of capitalism and markets with more neo-liberalism! And we will say this is progressive and left wing since we are baselessly asserting it will improve things and solve problems."
:porky-scared-flipped: "THE MARKET WILL SOLVE THIS", I scream to no one as the angry masses beat down my front door and trample me to death.
actually the market has solved that one it's called hired thugs
That just means your angry mob isn't large enough.
*cops
:inshallah-script:
Sorry the market has decided that the masses will trample the bourgeoisie
but the resources are scarce though
yeah but ... like ... what if we just innovate some new resources into existence?
stupid commies not knowing that you can wish things into existence
That single sentence is such a :jesse-wtf: moment, lol.
The only instance I'm aware of "supply side" solution to health care is Cuba though. They've deliberately oversupplied the market with Doctors, and send their surplus overseas. The problem with health care is for every supply, there is a requirement for some type of skilled professional to either QC the product or interpret the result. Even with the examples of at-home COVID tests and prescriptions- there's a shortage of Pharmacists, Pharm techs, and production techs.
I might just be ignorant here but doesn't a pharmacist get something off a shelf
Pharmacy techs are the ones who get stuff off shelves and who usually hand you drugs which is a 3 year diploma. They also do other stuff but are overseen by a pharmacist.
Pharmacists need to know more about drug interactions than doctors do and usually a pharmacy only has one or two pharmacists total, who usually own the pharmacy but sometimes don't. Which is some sort of undergrad plus 4 years of pharmacist school that you test into like law or medical school.
It's like how nurses do most of the medical stuff at hospitals but you still need doctors.
It's incredible how almost everything in this post is wrong. It's a four year degree, you'd have to go back a century for pharmacists to own their own pharmacies, nurses do nursing, not "medical stuff" - and most of this has to do with legal liability for malpractice.
Doctors and pharmacists have professional degrees and are held liable for mistakes. Nurses and pharmacy techs are held to a dramatically lower standard, usually they only get fired unless they're stealing drugs.
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the insane amount of schooling and barriers to entry are as much about weeding out people who will steal/abuse the powerful drugs they have access to by making it a hard to get and therefore a high paying job.
Oh OK I did think that the fact there were exams meant there was more to it than grabbing something behind you
Maybe instead of trying to redistribute scarce resources we simply distribute them equitably in the first place, instead of handing them all to a handful of pedophile lizard oligarchs?
the bizarre thing is he doesn't even need to make these poorly reasoned appeals to socialists. lord knows we're not a huge constituency. i think he just likes the aesthetic and wants to be an internet cool kid.
Well, I think he is appealing to standard liberals. The whole project of Vox is to launder Neo-Liberalism and "Market based solutions" as "woke" and progressive. Like, for example, I remember an early article about how great charter schools are because then a hypothetical Black family could have the choice to send their child to a charter school that focuses on Black history and culture, if there were enough Black families desiring that that the market would allow it. It is continuing the Clintonian project of having very far right neo-liberal politics that favor an affluent PMC person in the suburbs, while telling themselves that the are moral and progressive.
hitting Klein in the head with a bat labeled "problem solver caucus"