That doesn't mean much when Toyota was already a behemoth company, it's much harder to grow when you are already enormous.

People decided to elect that person, it's part of the package.

All healthcare resources were stretched thin during the height of the pandemic, your proposal is to add yet another resource-intensive test? For what exactly? So people could skip taking the jab? Don't you see any issues with the cost-benefit analysis of this? Not even accounting for the fact of how easy would be to defraud it.

People were faking vaccination cards, faking a blood test showing antigens would be another very common fraud. You cannot trust people when the consequences are much greater than any individual issue...

> Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.

> At the time, the intention to build one million new homes in a nation with a population of eight million made the Million Programme the most ambitious building programme in the world. In contrast to the social housing proposals of many other developed countries, which is targeted at those with low incomes, the Million Programme was a universal program intended to provide housing to Swedish people at a variety of income levels.

I currently live in a townhouse built during that period, the house is from 1974, around me in the same neighbourhood there are many houses of the exact same floorplan. Each row has 4-5 townhouses, 3-4 rows are built around a central playground where each row faces each other, this pattern repeats spreading across a 2km stretch between two lakes and a forest, there are around 200-300 of these townhouses in the neighbourhood. Closer to the metro station there are higher density buildings, the low-density ones (like mine) are built on the edges of the suburb, still a short 10-15 min walk to the station.

They are all based on pre-fabricated concrete structures, the finishing varying a bit (wooden panels, different colours). Also they were built in a way to make renovations and reconfigurations easy, accessing utilities is straightforward and it was easy to upgrade my house's electrical systems to have many more outlets in different rooms than it was originally planned for.

I wish similar programs would be discussed these days, it was an effective way to improve the housing stock in a short period of time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Programme

Stop thinking about individuals, think about systems, and societies.

Given that people were refusing basic instructions (keeping distance, for example); that people dying of COVID in a hospital didn't believe the disease was real due to political influences; how do you think governments and their healthcare systems would be able to track if someone had natural immunity or not? There's no way, the only answer is: vaccinate as many people as possible to cover for uncertainties.

Again, it's a numbers game, in a fast moving crisis there's no opening for individualised actions, you are part of a larger whole and the larger whole required for people to get vaccinate to stamp off the crisis.

Just look at measles, to stop spreading it to children who cannot take the vaccine due to other health issues you need almost every children that can be vaccinated to be vaccinated, otherwise the disease spreads.

It's not a really hard concept to grasp. It was crisis time, you don't get to play with lives at that point due to your individualistic convictions.

So much time has passed that I believe truly the current crop of execs don't know any better, they think this status quo is the only way to manage companies. They aren't really wrong since the incentives are there, and they continue to reap rewards from doing it.

You don't assume good intent from the US and its institutions, fine, but other countries also rolled out vaccines, are they all bought and paid by pharma companies? Is that really the argument?

It's a shame that even highly educated populations do not understand a basic fact of immunology.

Astroturfing implies that Kagi is paying for people like me to praise them, it's just a good product (for my personal use at least), and I'm glad to recommend it while it stays good.

This is such an ideology-laden bullshit leap that it pushes you into the "not even wrong" category.

I don't personally know anyone who uses PayPal, the only times I used it was for transferring money using F&F to purchase 2nd hand music gear.

In Sweden we have Swish for domestic transfers, if I could use Swish (or if Wero took it over) the same way to transfer money to my friends living in other EU countries I'd be very, very happy.

What kind of functionality PayPal offers that is much better? Using cards instead of direct debit?

I noticed that comes more from a place of not imagining themselves being the subject of the possible terrible consequences.

Many tech people think in abstract terms, they look back in history without thinking much about how the life of a normal person during a major transitional period was impacted, it's just a sequence of facts, not a collection of human stories.

It's sad because it completely detaches many of these folks from having empathy, yes, change is the only constant but if our aim is to progress as a species we should also be progressing on how to make inevitable changes less miserable for those impacted. I see a lot in tech people the thinking of technological advancement for the sake of technological advancement, not for building a better world for every human, humans tend to get in the way of major technological changes so in their minds they prioritise the advancements without caring much about the human aspect.

It's quite baffling to me because those are usually smart people, I'd expect smart people to have better holistic thinking.