The resistance to socialized healthcare in America can be easily understood without resorting to bizarre strawmen about hating poor people. Healthcare is of course a huge part of our economy and lives. Many (most?) people are satisfied with the status quo and are hesitant to see (what they consider to be) a huge increase in government power, spending, and general involvement in their lives. It's the same impulse that motivates people to oppose new housing -- people are loss averse and hate change.
Yes, the resistance is because the private sector will lose a lot of (parasitic) jobs. It's a non-starter to attempt to reduce health insurance companies power, because it would gut their employee numbers.
It's an unsavory thought, but the US has a significant amount of people employed in the business of denying healthcare to other people, which amounts to hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Any politician attempting to fix this would be committing political suicide.
We do not have an established history of accurately predicting or managing the costs of overwhelmingly expensive government programs, at least here in the US.
The US already runs two government healthcare programs. There are 65 million people in Medicare and 83 million in Medicaid. For less money per patient than private insurance.
What are you arguing? That restaurants are getting squeezed by their suppliers? And btw Americans eat out more frequently now than just about any other time in history.
It’s astounding how often people conflate advances and loans when talking about the music industry. If anything it’s closer to seed capital than a loan.
Advances are recouped from the sales of your albums or tickets. Assuming you’ve made a good faith effort to fulfill your obligations you don’t need to repay the advance or pay interest on the advance if your album doesn’t sell.
> Assuming you’ve made a good faith effort to fulfill your obligations you don’t need to repay the advance or pay interest on the advance if your album doesn’t sell.
It depends on your contract. Usually, poor sales won't result in needing to repay an advance. However, there are plenty of other clauses that the contract could contain that would lead to the contract being canceled and potentially the advance having to be repaid (due to delays, editorial disagreements, poor quality, etc.)
So what are you saying? That deliberately misinterpreting and sensationalizing a clear statement is justified because of the size and success of OpenAI? There’s no good faith reading of PGs statement that implies Altman couldn’t have remained CEO of YC if he wanted to.
I couldn't care less about whatever hyped up argument involving OpenAI is the current drama.
I was just speculating on why some hn members might feel like entrepreneurs even though they have nothing in common with Sam Altman. And how it might even be in their long term interest for one man to not be quite so powerful.
Blender underwent a huge UI overhaul that brought it closer in line with software like Maya. They even made left-click to select the default which was a huge turn off to newcomers.
If anything Blender proves that paying close attention to UI and making it mostly align with user expectations matters.
