Timothy MacNeill 🇨🇦
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Senior Teaching Professor Ontario Tech University. Sustainability Studies and Political Science. Political economy. Environment. Development. Ecological economics. Basic Income. Indigenous alternative development.
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I think much of the issue is that most "developed" countries actually have a glut of PhDs. They have more than enough of their own scientists.
May 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I think much of the issue is that most "developed" countries actually have a glut of PhDs. They have more than enough of their own scientists.
Though I see that the blue states tend to subsidize red states with transfers, so there is logic in just a broadly applied counter-tariff would have more overall impact and, hopefully get him to back down faster. Although, honestly, he backs down incredibly easy already and our leaders know it.
March 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Though I see that the blue states tend to subsidize red states with transfers, so there is logic in just a broadly applied counter-tariff would have more overall impact and, hopefully get him to back down faster. Although, honestly, he backs down incredibly easy already and our leaders know it.
It really seems you are just in the business of jumping on threads to try and promote your un-nuanced totalizing ideology.
March 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It really seems you are just in the business of jumping on threads to try and promote your un-nuanced totalizing ideology.
Further, why are you even here? The thread is from me asking ppl more familiar with US political/legal arrangements if it is better for Canada to support blue states while tariffing red ones. You came with economic lectures, and you are really not qualified to lecture me on the economy
March 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Further, why are you even here? The thread is from me asking ppl more familiar with US political/legal arrangements if it is better for Canada to support blue states while tariffing red ones. You came with economic lectures, and you are really not qualified to lecture me on the economy
It is very established in evidence that there are two sources of coercive power: public and private. You did literally speak of private interests co-opting the US government. Claiming government is always good or bad would be a blanket ideological statement. That is what you did.
March 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It is very established in evidence that there are two sources of coercive power: public and private. You did literally speak of private interests co-opting the US government. Claiming government is always good or bad would be a blanket ideological statement. That is what you did.
That is just a blanket ideological statement. Not rooted in evidence. As we've discussed. Without government, you have bare rule of economic elites and that's all. In fact, what you are describing is a weak government that is coopted by markets. All governments aren't as weak as yours thank God.
March 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
That is just a blanket ideological statement. Not rooted in evidence. As we've discussed. Without government, you have bare rule of economic elites and that's all. In fact, what you are describing is a weak government that is coopted by markets. All governments aren't as weak as yours thank God.
What are your enormous insurance companies for then? It's private. You are really stretching the argument to the absurd here. Even so, it does not support your argument that governments cannot do as well as the private sector. Which is where you started.
March 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
What are your enormous insurance companies for then? It's private. You are really stretching the argument to the absurd here. Even so, it does not support your argument that governments cannot do as well as the private sector. Which is where you started.
You are really stretching here. Canada is an entirely public system. It works much better and more cheaply. Before the US increased the public portions of it's healthcare, outcomes were even worse. It's about as clean a comparison as you can get. It extends to all countries with public systems too.
March 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
You are really stretching here. Canada is an entirely public system. It works much better and more cheaply. Before the US increased the public portions of it's healthcare, outcomes were even worse. It's about as clean a comparison as you can get. It extends to all countries with public systems too.
Per person health care cost Canada $6319 / US $12,555. Life expectancy Canada: 81.7 / US 78.8. Infant mortality rate Canada 4.5 per 1000 / US 5.8.
March 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Per person health care cost Canada $6319 / US $12,555. Life expectancy Canada: 81.7 / US 78.8. Infant mortality rate Canada 4.5 per 1000 / US 5.8.