*MY* Collection of posts that relate to a Healthy Community, the information needed to have a healthy community, and a place to discuss these topics to improve those ideas. As well as, a place to share all the potentially harmful information, misinformation, and DISinformation, because TALKING about it, and Sharing the TRUTH, citing facts with data and sources, is how you best deal with misinformation, not the "thought police" ministry of propaganda defense! Warning is for some Foul Language
6 hour long OPEN discussion, the first, that they hope to repeat periodically. Meeting was at MIT but not sponsored by MIT so the disclaimer reads:
"Workshop took place at MIT but is not sponsored by MIT. All the presentations and discussions represent the respective individuals’ opinions only and do not reflect in any way on the institutions in which they work.
Any re-use of the video or parts of it, including posts on social media requires written approval requires prior written approval from Professor Retsef Levi (retsef@mit.edu)."
Making sure this is on both blogs, because it's politics/agendas based on "science" And we are going to have to continually insist on correct data, updated data, no exaggerations of data, etc
Is it just me, or does Economics often turn out to be counterintuitive?
It seems to me, the more I learn, the more I see it that way. It's easy for people to fool others, or even themselves, because simple logic and good economic policy seem to have an inverse relationship. This seems to clear up the "trickle down economics" theory, which seems to work somewhat under certain circumstances, but not under our current circumstances.
Two things seem most important to me, that this video reinforces:
Lobbying allows rich people & corporations the ability to influence government to an unacceptable level, which perpetuates the problem of income disparity, whereby the rich get richer and the middle and lower class share more and more burden to the point of breaking.
We right the rules that govern us, and have the ability to change them, and companies & elites will work within those rules. But we have allowed too much influence and rewrite from the same, allowed them too much room to make things worse by making even more money, entrenching their wealth.
(big sidetrack, as a meta-analysis of a covid19 treatment was published and peer reviewed so my focus must be there to help save more lives! a cheap, safe, and very effective treatment for covid19 relieves the problems from inequity for those who can't afford, or have to wait a long time to get the vaccine where they live, or for their situation, etc)
