Many people, especially Americans seem to confuse capitalism with 'trade', 'competition', 'markets', etc, whereas I mean it as the private ownership of production, the profit from other people's work, etc. That seems fundamentally immoral in some ways from the very start.
Eg, I read an article about working with Elon Musk recently (https://www.businessinsider.com/working-for-elon-musk-spacex...), where they said "If there are employees not aligned with that vision, he will chew them out and he will do it in a vicious way, which is his right as owner.". I mean, no, we really should not be enshrining that, or even really tolerating it, in a decent society.
The question then is how should we allocate resources (capital), how should we incentivize risk, innovation, hard work, etc, What kinds of ownership are moral, etc.
I suspect we'll be stuck with some form of capitalism for a while though - like democracy, it's the worst system, except for all the others, for now.
From the Wikipedia link: "At the end of 2016, it employed 74,117 people in 257 companies and organizations in four areas of activity: finance, industry, retail and knowledge. By 2019, 81,507 people were employed."
1) Reluctance to seek treatment for something that can be still tolerated
2) Incorrect assumption that sleep apnea only affects overweight people that snore by a large portion of the medical community
3) Lack of connection between poor sleep and symptoms. By the time you experience symptoms, you've probably had years of progressively poor sleep so its hard to connect A=>B
4) Doctors through their training are ground to the bone and have to sleep 2-3 hours during their residency. I think there is some innate resistance to the idea that sleep is important in the general medical field
5) Lack of communication between specialties. See a therapist / psych person and they won't know sleep. See a allergist and they won't know sleep. See a sleep doctor and they won't give ENT or allergy advice. Etc.
Yes you need medical care to get diagnosis and treat. But its a multifaceted illness, you need a team of specialists and doctors treating you in the different aspects.
There is some dark humor if one is again forced to look at the opportunities and finds many familiar places left previously.
Back when Dutch government was pretty much the only job agency companies offering such "opportunities" would be scrubbed from the list. If they send people there they just come back looking for work again. Not something the institution was willing to spend resources on.
I imagine one could explore something like a credit score with taxes that reflect what great employer you are. A piss bottle tax could bring in hundreds of millions in tax revenue. Perhaps it should be applied as a percentage CEO wealth, income and land tax. Or call it the asshole tax.
don't the big unions have some of the same power/control issues because of capitalism? a rich CEO of a union corp on a private jet seems almost worse than a rich tech monopoly CEO?
> don't the big unions have some of the same power/control issues
There's a potential for corruption in any human organization, even democratic organizations. Witness corruption in politics, for example. That's mostly unavoidable, humans being what they are.
The difference is that union leaders are still elected by the union members, whereas corporate CEOs are elected by the stockholders, not by employees. So even given some corruption, union leaders still represent the interests of labor better than CEOs do.
It's Jacobin, the only possible solution is always socialism. Which is okay, but it's really not that interesting once you've heard it a few dozen times, so I'm not surprised people aren't jumping on it as if it's some new javascript framework.
