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I think it's kind that we have MOC fundraising for Americans...but we should be furious that state and federal government isn't more immediately stepping up.
Government is at its core shared purchasing and risk pooling - what does that mean? https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1362595095489429505
I think it's kind that we have MOC fundraising for Americans...but we should be furious that state and federal government isn't more immediately stepping up.
Government is at its core shared purchasing and risk pooling - what does that mean? https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1362595095489429505
It means for a phenomenal amount of deliverables, government acts as our insurance. We pay for the government to help us minimize our risk of bad outcomes and to help us recover when it is not possible to head those outcomes off.
But there are 2 problems with this relationship.
But there are 2 problems with this relationship.
1. We're failing pretty catastrophically at both risk management and recovery; we are so focused on short-term issues like premiums (taxes) that we're not managing or preventing the large looming crises coming at us in waves...and we're failing to deliver functional recovery.
2. We keep acting like the government is the the insurance company and their profit/stability is owed to others; it's OWED to US. We are the insured AND the insurer.
Right now we treat big donors and companies like they are who the duty of our government is to...we get scraps.
Right now we treat big donors and companies like they are who the duty of our government is to...we get scraps.
The parties have failed at running this joint.
GOP utterly - see Texas this very moment.
Dems are arguing how we can deliver somewhere between less than bare minimum with covid and almost the bare minimum, and we are left to crowdsource our solutions.
It's not good enough.
GOP utterly - see Texas this very moment.
Dems are arguing how we can deliver somewhere between less than bare minimum with covid and almost the bare minimum, and we are left to crowdsource our solutions.
It's not good enough.
GOVERNMENT IS CROWDSOURCING THAT DOESN'T RELY ON GUILT AS AN ENFORCEMENT AND ALLOCATION MECHANISM.
The wealthy are circumventing that by convincing our government that personal responsibility requires us to e-beg for solutions that we already have the structure in place for.
The wealthy are circumventing that by convincing our government that personal responsibility requires us to e-beg for solutions that we already have the structure in place for.
This doesn't mean we shouldn't feel good at folks coming together to help others...it means we should simultaneously feel furious at our leadership that there is this need gap we are having to step into so regularly.
The government isn't supposed to do everything for us...
The government isn't supposed to do everything for us...
...but it is supposed to create solutions to issues too large for individuals to solve, and there *are* issues too big for individuals to solve practically or efficiently.
We cannot solve climate change, build city infrastructure, conquer pandemics, etc as individuals.
We cannot solve climate change, build city infrastructure, conquer pandemics, etc as individuals.
The solution to government failure is not to remove government, it is to remove government leadership that purposefully breaks the government for the profit and wellbeing of just the wealthy.
The problem isn't government, it's government destruction for greed and self interest.
The problem isn't government, it's government destruction for greed and self interest.
