If it's regulated to the same standard as hotels or B&B's, I don't see a problem. But of course if they're regulated to that standard, most of them will disappear.
I am certainly not saying that is not the case. I'd just like to have practical examples of success stories of deregulation in this area. I haven't found any yet myself, and I have plenty of counter examples...
On many accounts, it is better than most paid healthcare in the US and it’s objectively better than no healthcare at all, which is what many US residents are left with. But most importantly even the paid healthcare in Europe depends on the infrastructure and industry upheld by the free healthcare.
Yes, I live here. Have YOU used it?
Some poorer countries in Europe may have worse healthcare, but it usually has more to do with corrupt government not spending enough on it (but instead on fking stadiums...), and the much much better paycheck on the west (that is west Europe) causing massive migration of educated workforce throughout the years.
What objective problem can you bring up? Wait time is propaganda, not worse than in the US. Private healthcare is simply immoral and barbaric, a constant, externally determined demand for something should not be exploited. And one nation level insurance is the cheapest and best way for everyone (other than the billionaires owning private healthcare facilities and insurances)
In most contexts this would be more open to interpretation, but since (a) I just asked you to stop posting nationalistic putdowns (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803989, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26809750), and (b) you've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly and egregiously, I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.
The Mac comparison is better than the Windows one but Mac is in exactly the same position as Linux here: either you use the manufacturer recommended hardware (Apple hardware or the various pre-configured Linux laptops like System76) or you spend time looking up compatibility (Hackintosh/roll-your-own Linux).
The difference is that the manufacturer-certified hardware for Macs has a giant advertising budget.
Working for a fully distributed company it definitely feels like it's not naive. Certainly everything won't go this way but it's a lot easier than most people think. Apart from at setup time and with public holiday schedules those borders are not very apparent.
Companies with 1000s of people have been remote forever. I worked at Autodesk in a team across two multinational companies which on our side were through Toronto to us in Iceland and on to Shanghai. If you think big teams aren’t distributed you’ve not worked in a big team.
It would require a sea change in thinking, or get people comfortable with the idea of not belonging to nations.
As you point out Nationalism has been a pretty recent development. It has mostly been enforced by indoctrination in the education systems and culture. While it has had many many issues, we have seen it reduce the number of conflicts and wars by a lot, and thus it appears to be a reasonable solution.
Whatever solution aims to replace it would have to not only overcome all of these barriers, but provide better results as well.
Do you honestly believe (let's say) the USA cutting all economic ties/imposing tariffs is insignificant?
Of course they can trade with the others who don't care about pollution. That doesn't mean the costs of a carbon tax don't outweigh the benefits of having economic ties with the countries that have that tax.
