If you want to feel like you're losing your mind.
Highlights:
A vaccine program will also be expensive, even though recipients are told they will get vaccinated for free. One thing I’ve learned in life is that “free” is rarely a good price for anything. Especially something of great value, like protection from a deadly disease.
I propose a citizen-led program with three basic objectives:
- Entice a broad array of social influencers to help drive vaccination rates
- Raise $50 billion to subsidize vaccinations
- Provide various businesses with certainty
My proposal is neither conservative or liberal — or it can be portrayed as both.
By establishing one price for the vaccine — free — we artificially constrain ourselves to that price and exclude other pricing models able to deliver better results for society.
HOLY FUCK HOW DO YOU GET THIS MANY BRAINWORMS
This clearly exemplifies what is wrong with liberalism. They think that price and profit MUST control everything and that by utilizing price and profit effectively, society is the best it can possibly be. They think Profit is the most important outcome and that as long as that profit outcome is met society will be served.
Which is OBVIOUSLY INSANE in the case of a vaccine. The only outcome of the vaccine is protection from a virus and the only way that outcome is achieved is if that vaccine is widespread and easily available. This is at DIRECT ODDS with profit.
Libs are actually sociopaths
Collecting money from the wealthy to fund public sevices. There's a word for that.
When I have a new idea and want to test it, I’ll often call a specific family member and run it by him. Paraphrasing John F. Kennedy from a very different context, I do this “not because it is easy, but because it is hard.” In many respects, especially politically, this family member and I couldn’t be more different. I’m well to the left, he self-describes as “to the right of Genghis Kahn.” For me, he is the very definition of a hard sell.
Don't worry y'all. He's a leftist.
So I asked him if he’d be willing to pay $10,000 to move up in line for a Covid-19 vaccination. He responded that he’d pay $100,000. His reasoning? He’d done well in the stock market this year and would be happy to both move up and help. He’d spent a career in uniform defending America against military threats. Defending Americans against a deadly disease didn’t seem much different. He could afford it and he’d do it.
Remember that weird instagram shit about not loving them at their worst not deserving them at their best?
He’d spent a career in uniform defending America against military threats.
What did he do, attack a National Guard base?
The Genghis Khan to Aaron Sorkin spectrum. You know, delivering glorious victory to your people vs. masturbating about how you'd deliver glorious victory if only the dumb-dumbs would listen to your galaxy-brain ideas.
self describes as "to the right of Genghis Khan."
Ok, I can see what's wrong with this guy and his family.
This is the worst thing I've ever read. I can't believe the guy from Maroon 5 would write this.
Relying on charity just means taxing the nicest rich people and taking nothing from the assholes. In the long-term, it's subsidizing assholery, because they'll invest their extra money and grow even richer while not suffering the full brunt of the consequences of social problems due to the charity that does occur.
no, even better, what the rich don’t want doesn’t get funded, see no marxist center for american progress
Let the ultra-rich and influential skip the line for the guillotine? Hear me out
Allow them to skip the line but theres a fifty % chance its a lethal injection instead of the vaccine
If only there was a way to collect money from the ultra wealthy that they could never possibly use in multiple life times to fund this and other programs to promote the well being of individuals and the society as a whole.
Hmm.. oh well.
This article is an amazing specimen of pure ideology. Literally can't think outside the box of charging people and profiting from fucking vaccines. Capitalist realism folks, it's not good.
In communist Jingping china, the ultra wealthy receive special preference with medical treatment while normal people must wait in absurdly long lines!!!
I absolutely support this plan, and I don't see why everyone is so against it. It would provide much needed funding for vaccine distribution, and you'd get to give a placebo to all the wealthiest people around the world. Have fun at your post-vaccination parties. 😘
