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Bradical79

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5. Healthcare would be #1

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2016, 04:06 PM

Dec 2016

A profit motive combined with a service every single human being will need at some point in their life is a recipe for corruption and oppression.

Next would be infrastructure for obvious reasons. Nothing else works if we can't travel on the roads, bridges are colapsing, there's no electricity, etc.

Then any other neccesities need some sort of socialized component, though there's typically plenty of room for a free market to do its thing within those spaces.

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Discussion: which things should NOT be left in the hands of "market forces"? [View all] Ken Burch Dec 2016 OP

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Healthcare would be #1 Bradical79 Dec 2016 #5