Ah, a classic correlation is not causation situation. Thanks!

So would you say that vaccines are still needed for all, or just for people like me who are immunosuppressed?

Of course, if you’re not getting an actual pay rise. Then you strike until you get a better deal or start making money without exchanging it for units of time.

Ok just going to make the counter argument if that’s ok?

They are new compared to traditional vaccines like polio and smallpox

Their view is that vaccines are now unnecessary because of herd immunity, (I’ve got them to concede that hospitals or the economy would have collapsed without vaccines), and that they are just being used up because govts signed contracts.

Their view is that the side effects risk is now higher than the benefit.

Unfortunately I’m at the age where more friends are dying than I’m making new ones lol

Thanks, that’s what I thought. They always point to the recorded side effects and I always counter with the fact that the disease is a lot lot worse than the cure, and that it’s a classic trolley problem. If the equation is kill one to save a million, you always kill one.

Or am I missing something?

Inflation means money is worth less than before and inflation is actually money creation. Higher supply means lower demand. Record profits are only records because the nominal value is higher, but the real value isn’t.

Companies operate on gross margin, so 30% margin is always 30% of the total price. The actual value is irrelevant.

Sorry, but you are trying to argue that black is white. It’s pointless.

Do you not understand what sorry means?

I’m not insulting you. You’re just wrong and you don’t have the capacity to admit it.

Here’s an example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Severn_Crossing

It was built by a french company that specialised in bridge building.

The maintenance was not performed by the same company

Specialisation of skills is how you utilise capital efficiency

Sorry, but you are trying to argue that black is white. It’s pointless.

You then present my argument back to me that it is expensive to have two specialised teams.

A maintenance crew does not build bridges. It would be too expensive to have architects and engineers sitting around waiting for a bridge to be built

It’s an inefficient use of capital, which was my initial point… Just saying socialism fixes all problems is naive at best.

They are two different things you moron.

https://www.bigrentz.com/blog/how-are-bridges-built

https://bridgemastersinc.com/approaching-bridge-maintenance-efficiently

I have worked in civil engineering, maybe when you finish high school you could too!

You really don’t understand why it would be more expensive to have two completely different crews?

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Lol. How many maintenance crews are pouring thousands of tons of steel reinforced concrete?

How many architects are maintaining bridges?

It’s ok to admit when you’re wrong you know?

Yes, one is construction, one is maintenance… These are different things…

Why do you think bridges need rebuilding? How many times has Arkadiko Bridge been rebuilt?

No, that’d be a stupid thing to think.

People who maintain bridges are not the same as those who build them though.

If your bridges constantly need rebuilding, you’re not building very good bridges.

Every country does. Every country doesn’t need to be building bridges constantly though, there’s only so many rivers. It’s inefficient.

Better to contract that out via competitive tenders to specialist bridge builders.

The for dummies books are good if they don’t want to learn online

Magic money tree eh?

But that takes capital away from the government who could be spending it on healthcare…

Opportunity cost

That’s the most efficient use of capital though. Everyone building their own bridge is stupid.

Doubt