Mammon category archive
Stories of the Fall 0
Der Spiegel interviews two economists, Angus Deaton and Anne Case, in an attempt to figure out what the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed about health care in the United States.
They are not optimistic.
Here’s a bit:
DER SPIEGEL: Is it possible to identify the point when things started to go wrong in the U.S.?
Deaton: One great question to ask is: Why doesn’t America have a strong federal welfare state with health care like other European countries do? One answer is the issue of race. In the middle of the 20th century, it was the southern senators of the Democratic party who blocked any consideration of publicly funded health care. People don’t like to pay for services that go to people that don’t look like them, especially when they are black.
It’s a tough read, but a worthwhile one.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
You’ll journey to new Frontiers of customer service.
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
Scott Maxwell argues that you can voucher that this is a con.
Animal Sacrifice 0
Thom and his guest discuss how the slaughter of farm animals is not simply the result of the coronavirus. Rather, they posit that the pandemic has revealed deep flaws in the existing system for getting meat to market.
The Medicine Show 0
Will Bunch argues that it is all show and no medicine.
A False Choice 0
At the Inky, Robert I. Field explains that the notion that you can somehow choose between the economy and public health is–er–misguided. An excerpt:
Meanwhile, PoliticalProf takes a look at the stock market.
Indulgences for Sale 0
Donald Trump, seeking to appease the evangelical “Christians” in his base, has declared that churches are essential services.
E. J. Montini disagrees, because the Bible tells him so. A nugget (emphasis in the original):
The priest made a joke with the congregation, saying something along the lines of, “While I’m glad you’re all here, and I really do need this job, it doesn’t even take two or three of us to have the Lord with us. We’re able to have that on our own, any time we want.”
An Unthinkable Thought 0
I fear that El Jefe may be onto something.
