Interesting Links for 12-03-2023

[andrewducker]

1. The Daylight Saving Time Mess Just Won't Go Away

(tags:light time USA Europe )

2. Money does buy happiness after all (up to at least 500k)

(tags:money happiness psychology viaNancyLebov )

3. Do refugees have to stay in the first safe country they reach?

(tags:refugee asylum FactCheck UK )

Comments

No. 2

[channelpenguin]

Not living in America makes me very happy. A country where one can be bankrupted or impoverished at any time at random by an accident or illness is not civilised. (Why is it like that - is it religion? Like somewhere at the base of it, a belief that such things are NOT random, that if such things happen then God did it because you need punished? Or just capitalism as religion)

Re: No. 2

[andrewducker]

Communist!

But yes, so utterly rubbish.

Re: No. 2

[jducoeur]

Or just capitalism as religion

Close, although I would describe it as anti-socialism as a religion. I don't think the average person feels a terribly deep attachment to capitalism per se, but the meme of "Socialism is that evil thing that destroyed the USSR" runs extraordinarily deep, especially among the older crowd.

More specifically, the right wing has been pushing the notion that "socialized medicine" is fundamentally awful for many decades. They seize on every example of a system breaking down to highlight that, and quietly ignore the systems that work generally well.