Comments on: Safety Nets, Growth, and Liberation from Family http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/ The Sweet Release of Reason Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Baby Safety Gates http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9636 Baby Safety Gates Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:45:56 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9636 Very nice blog you have here. Bookmarked! :) Very nice blog you have here. Bookmarked! :)

]]> By: Consumatopia http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9635 Consumatopia Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:57:28 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9635 The point is that protection from risk enables experimentation. Failure is how we learn to do better--that's especially true for the creative and productive. The point is that protection from risk enables experimentation. Failure is how we learn to do better–that’s especially true for the creative and productive.

]]> By: Consumatopia http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9642 Consumatopia Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:57:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9642 The point is that protection from risk enables experimentation. Failure is how we learn to do better--that's especially true for the creative and productive. The point is that protection from risk enables experimentation. Failure is how we learn to do better–that’s especially true for the creative and productive.

]]> By: Enoch Roote http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9634 Enoch Roote Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:45:06 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9634 Here's a way to understand it: If the thing we all have in common is that we pay for each others' health care, then all our health care is done. We don't have to worry about it. We sort-of already do this, by the way, with insurance, but because the insurance is profit-motivated, it doesn't accept as much risk and is exclusionary. So we already have a collectivist health care system mapped into capitalism, with some middle-men ending up really rich, at the expense of those whose conditions are risky to insure. If my parents can't afford insurance, I end up being tied to them in a way that demands a sacrifice of my creativity. And the only reason this occurs is because some middle-men get to set the terms of the insurance policy, so that they can make money. Taking the profit motive out, we end up with insurance for whoever needs it. Suddenly, my parents aren't uninsurable any more, and I am free to support them to whatever degree I choose, allowing me to maximize my individual economic liberty. The middle men don't like this fact, and they'd really like to keep their stranglehold on my creativity. But should we let them? Here’s a way to understand it:

If the thing we all have in common is that we pay for each others’ health care, then all our health care is done. We don’t have to worry about it. We sort-of already do this, by the way, with insurance, but because the insurance is profit-motivated, it doesn’t accept as much risk and is exclusionary.

So we already have a collectivist health care system mapped into capitalism, with some middle-men ending up really rich, at the expense of those whose conditions are risky to insure.

If my parents can’t afford insurance, I end up being tied to them in a way that demands a sacrifice of my creativity. And the only reason this occurs is because some middle-men get to set the terms of the insurance policy, so that they can make money.

Taking the profit motive out, we end up with insurance for whoever needs it. Suddenly, my parents aren’t uninsurable any more, and I am free to support them to whatever degree I choose, allowing me to maximize my individual economic liberty.

The middle men don’t like this fact, and they’d really like to keep their stranglehold on my creativity. But should we let them?

]]> By: Enoch Roote http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9643 Enoch Roote Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:45:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9643 Here's a way to understand it: If the thing we all have in common is that we pay for each others' health care, then all our health care is done. We don't have to worry about it. We sort-of already do this, by the way, with insurance, but because the insurance is profit-motivated, it doesn't accept as much risk and is exclusionary. So we already have a collectivist health care system mapped into capitalism, with some middle-men ending up really rich, at the expense of those whose conditions are risky to insure. If my parents can't afford insurance, I end up being tied to them in a way that demands a sacrifice of my creativity. And the only reason this occurs is because some middle-men get to set the terms of the insurance policy, so that they can make money. Taking the profit motive out, we end up with insurance for whoever needs it. Suddenly, my parents aren't uninsurable any more, and I am free to support them to whatever degree I choose, allowing me to maximize my individual economic liberty. The middle men don't like this fact, and they'd really like to keep their stranglehold on my creativity. But should we let them? Here’s a way to understand it:

If the thing we all have in common is that we pay for each others’ health care, then all our health care is done. We don’t have to worry about it. We sort-of already do this, by the way, with insurance, but because the insurance is profit-motivated, it doesn’t accept as much risk and is exclusionary.

So we already have a collectivist health care system mapped into capitalism, with some middle-men ending up really rich, at the expense of those whose conditions are risky to insure.

If my parents can’t afford insurance, I end up being tied to them in a way that demands a sacrifice of my creativity. And the only reason this occurs is because some middle-men get to set the terms of the insurance policy, so that they can make money.

Taking the profit motive out, we end up with insurance for whoever needs it. Suddenly, my parents aren’t uninsurable any more, and I am free to support them to whatever degree I choose, allowing me to maximize my individual economic liberty.

The middle men don’t like this fact, and they’d really like to keep their stranglehold on my creativity. But should we let them?

]]> By: Richard Pointer http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9633 Richard Pointer Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:05:44 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9633 Better post Will. Most of the time you are too wordy. I agree with Lester. Tyler, of late, has been a ninny. Better post Will. Most of the time you are too wordy. I agree with Lester. Tyler, of late, has been a ninny.

]]> By: Richard Pointer http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9638 Richard Pointer Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:05:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9638 Better post Will. Most of the time you are too wordy. I agree with Lester. Tyler, of late, has been a ninny. Better post Will. Most of the time you are too wordy. I agree with Lester. Tyler, of late, has been a ninny.

]]> By: Lester Hunt http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9632 Lester Hunt Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:38:37 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9632 Will - Excellent post! Hard to believe that of the two of you Tyler is the one who is supposed to be the economist. This is proof that philosophy is not such a bad thing to study, after all! Will – Excellent post! Hard to believe that of the two of you Tyler is the one who is supposed to be the economist. This is proof that philosophy is not such a bad thing to study, after all!

]]> By: Lester Hunt http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9637 Lester Hunt Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:38:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9637 Will - Excellent post! Hard to believe that of the two of you Tyler is the one who is supposed to be the economist. This is proof that philosophy is not such a bad thing to study, after all! Will – Excellent post! Hard to believe that of the two of you Tyler is the one who is supposed to be the economist. This is proof that philosophy is not such a bad thing to study, after all!

]]> By: Eric Crampton http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9631 Eric Crampton Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:47:53 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/03/27/safety-nets-growth-and-liberation-from-family/#comment-9631 I'd always thought the Randian dream re family was to denounce and abandon parasites, not to fob them off onto an alternative host. I’d always thought the Randian dream re family was to denounce and abandon parasites, not to fob them off onto an alternative host.

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