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thebenshapirobot t1_ixuuksm wrote

I saw that you mentioned Ben Shapiro. In case some of you don't know, Ben Shapiro is a grifter and a hack. If you find anything he's said compelling, you should keep in mind he also says things like this:

>Letโ€™s say your life depended on the following choice today: you must obtain either an affordable chair or an affordable X-ray. Which would you choose to obtain? Obviously, youโ€™d choose the chair. Thatโ€™s because there are many types of chair, produced by scores of different companies and widely distributed. You could buy a $15 folding chair or a $1,000 antique without the slightest difficulty. By contrast, to obtain an X-ray youโ€™d have to work with your insurance company, wait for an appointment, and then haggle over price. Why? Because the medical market is far more regulated โ€” thanks to the widespread perception that health care is a โ€œrightโ€ โ€” than the chair market. Does that sound soulless? True soullessness is depriving people of the choices they require because youโ€™re more interested in patting yourself on the back by inventing rights than by incentivizing the creation of goods and services. In health care, we could use a lot less virtue signaling and a lot less government. Or we could just read Senator Sandersโ€™s tweets while we wait in line for a government-sponsored surgery โ€” dying, presumably, in a decrepit chair.


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_bad t1_ixuz8u2 wrote

Good Bot

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thebenshapirobot t1_ixuzv77 wrote

Thank you for your logic and reason.


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