I don't think Sliders is a good reference for discussions on health care policy. I don't think you not spending money to build an object causes you to profit. Maybe you are using the term profit in a nonstandard way. It is wrong in every instance for someone's income to increase because they denied health care to someone who needs it.
Your income increases when a road isn't built? Who pays for the increase in your income when a road isn't built? You are not using profit in a standard way.
> Who pays for the increase in your income when a road isn't built?
My employer, who pays me to write software. As we can see, writing software without seeing to it that the road gets built makes me X dollars, but writing software while seeing to it that the road gets built makes me X - Y dollars, where Y is the cost of seeing to it that the road gets built.
If the idea of me being obligated to spend my personal income on this matter makes you quibble about the definition of income and profit, pretend I'm a contractor with an LLC, and my LLC pays for the road. Either way, that's immaterial. I am letting people die by not building that road.
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I don't think Sliders is a good reference for discussions on health care policy. I don't think you not spending money to build an object causes you to profit. Maybe you are using the term profit in a nonstandard way. It is wrong in every instance for someone's income to increase because they denied health care to someone who needs it.
Nope, I'm using profit in the standard way. I'm making money by not building that road through the mountain. And people are dying because of me.
> I don't think Sliders is a good reference for discussions on health care policy.
Why?
Your income increases when a road isn't built? Who pays for the increase in your income when a road isn't built? You are not using profit in a standard way.
> Who pays for the increase in your income when a road isn't built?
My employer, who pays me to write software. As we can see, writing software without seeing to it that the road gets built makes me X dollars, but writing software while seeing to it that the road gets built makes me X - Y dollars, where Y is the cost of seeing to it that the road gets built.
If the idea of me being obligated to spend my personal income on this matter makes you quibble about the definition of income and profit, pretend I'm a contractor with an LLC, and my LLC pays for the road. Either way, that's immaterial. I am letting people die by not building that road.