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Are you okay?

That's happening on YouTube now.

Good. They should continue.

Definitely not people like you.

So you believe the ability to produce food, which we've historically produced too much of and let go to waste, is just going to poof into thin air because a select portion of the population doesn't have money flow.

What a ridiculous statement.

see just how quickly we’re trading our liberty as a society for the semblance of security.

Are you referencing the Benjamin Franklin quote here? Because the quote means the exact opposite of what it is typically used for.

The state has every right and responsibility to defend the general populace against threats in spite of personal wants and wishes.

If the federal government rolled in with a heavy hand, we’re all stuck with whatever they think is best.

Yeah, like saving people's lives instead of entertaining some muppet's idea of what it means to be scientific.

Hint: If you're not listening to trained, professional scientists while attempting to sound scientific and curious, you're probably just performing an intellectual jerk off.

than to have my entire financial life ruined.

You know we can just literally choose to not have this problem, instead of buying into other people's narratives.

Not once did anyone raise any alarms about, maybe these young people shouldn't go into this line of work

Actually plenty of people do. It's just not a very thrilling subject to the U.S. populace.

The ability to produce food or manufacturer essential items doesn't suddenly disappear. If you think money flow suddenly makes things disappear remove your brain worm.

You know what can disappear, become depleted, or stretched to thin? Trained medical personal. And money flow can't replenish that resource.

that needs to be weighed against destroying all of our economic institutions.

No it doesn't. Like the statement alone doesn't even have any credence, let alone following through with it.

Incredibly daft.

I don't have a stake in this argument. But nice signaling attempt.

Invoke-WebRequest doesn't even work correctly on windows for a large amount of very vanilla web functionality.

Powershell is a nice idea, but Microsoft is kidding themselves if they think it's even close to the alternatives.

It was big news in my Midwestern city

What city?

Why presume what I believe?

It was a question. You asked the question, and it can only be asked as a non-rhetorical question if it is predicated on ignorance and some a priori perspective.

I live in the city

Are you talking about an "actual" city, or an urban sprawl?

where would you shop for groceries or other domestic services?

What kind of weird question is this? "Downtowns" are _more_ accessible for people, not less. That's why they are more expensive by the foot.

Are you under the belief that there are no markets or services in cities? This seems like a perspective you can get from only living in the suburban non-sense that America has constructed.

This is not evidence.

Do you have any evidence to support this claim?

This is not a thing. No one at Yelp does this. There is literally zero evidence that Yelp does this.

"I'm the most correct because I don't care about anything and trivialize important matters to just differences of opinion!"

How did we all manage to build an economy such that we're all paying each other just-in-time to avoid catastrophe?

Stagnate wages. And instead of raising wages, we lowered interest rates to keep the money flowing going.

As we have just discovered, an entire segment of society is being propped up by the borrowing power of the "middle class" in America.

We have been pulling the wrong levers, and as you've said in not so many words, our current economy is a farce. People are being fed the scraps of the economic pie.

We should give the people their money; their due, proper wages. We should stop formulating economic policies on "the rich should get richer no matter what." It might not be too late to return to sound economic policies that benefit the populace and not a select few, and in return we'd have a more robust economy.

The government is failing badly at every level.

Just the executive branch, which was elected by a certain segment of our society.

Thankfully (hopefully) it only lasts 4 years, and not 20.

This works for a while, but we can't realistically expect to just shut the country down for the next year or so.

We didn't shut down. We stopped doing what's unnecessary.

There's a big difference, and now that reality has made us "wake up" we should probably reevaluate how we structure our economy and society.

You get cultures of competence and good judgement when there is a real competitive market

This doesn't even happen in markets that are highly competitive. Only professional and strict engineering standards work.

Not voodoo economics.

You should write an essay substantiating your claims.

What claims? Why is such a basic deflection on this site so readily accepted by supposedly intelligent and inquisitive people? This type of discourse and rhetoric is pretty shameful and embarrassing.

What claims do I have that I need to support?

Maybe some more substance would help your argument.

What is it called when someone demands evidence for a counter position when the original position has never been supported?