It's quite comforting to know that what3words' president.elect.trump is in a remote corner of Norway in the Osdalen National Reserve. Can we send him to that 1m² for the next four years?
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On the practical continuum of experience anticipated of a modern political party:
Where would you place the Conservatives with PM Boris Johnson?
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Maybe Kevlar or ceramic panels trump carbon fibre?
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Jousting (reimagined with modern tech) should be an Olympic sport - horses, carbon fibre armour, electronic point scoring (like fencing), lances, swords, poetry & dance.
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Am I oversimplifying the electoral choices we have, when I characterize that choice as one between a social contract where either:
The state takes responsibility for providing for many needs through institutions that are properly funded by taxation and enjoy economies of scale, minimized losses to commercial profiteering, centralized expertise, coverage of essential sectors that would otherwise be neglected. The potential downsides being loss of innovation, mediocrity, inefficiency. This is paid for by people's taxes, so taxes need to be progressive & fair.
OR
The individual takes responsibility for paying for their own needs through commercial entities that replace the public entities and don't fund needs for wider society. They pay companies, instead of the government, and while those companies may compete and costs may reduce, they may equally gouge and make immoral profits. Innovation may be incentivised but there's no guarantees and uneconomic needs will remain unmet.
The bottom line, it seems to me, is that we have to pay for what we need, whether directly or through taxes. The choice comes down to whether one believes in society or individualism and as a correlate of that buying into the basket of associated confirmative tropes. Most people of whatever persuasion seem to relish their confirmation biases, not question them!
It would be great to see responsible media pursuing the evidence for/against those tropes. For example, Jeremy Hunt reducing tax, just reduces further government underfunding of institutions we all rely on, so the tax saving gets consumed by individuals having to pay for that service in the open market a) without any protection of scale and b) the overhead of commercial profit
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