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| ▲ | acdha an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Google's founders can buy all the yachts they could possibly eat, yet Google Searches are offered for free. Google searches cost many billions of dollars: your confusion is because the customer isn’t the person searching but the advertisers paying to influence them. Healthcare can’t work like that not just because the real costs are both much higher and resistant to economies of scale but, critically, there aren’t people with deep pockets lining up to pay for you to be healthy. That’s why every other developed country sees better results for less money: keeping people healthy is a social good, and political forces work for that better than raw economic incentives. |
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| ▲ | plagiarist 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Wal-Mart and Amazon have reduced wages for employees and the quality of purchased goods more than they have improved prices for consumers. |
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| ▲ | eru 3 minutes ago | parent [-] | | How do we know that? And why do customers come back to shop there? |
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| ▲ | __loam 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| And Google search, a service on the level of a public utility, has been degrading noticeably for years in the face of shareholders demanding more and more returns. |
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