Malcolm Gladwell on Healthcare

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1. I made it to 2:29 waiting for a point to be made. It is the same point that is in Plato’s Republic, modernized:
   Those with much power and of low character do not use it wisely.
   Those with little power and of the highest character understand how to use power wisely.
   Therefore, the former SHOULD freely give their power to the latter, for the good of the whole.
   Persons like me, having enough insight to rediscover this ancient maxim are both wise and of good character, should be the recipients of more power.

   Ayn Rand pithily summarized this as “Buddy, can ya spare a dime?” She was shamefully blunt; her first language was Slavic, which tends to give much affection to plain talk, by my experience.

   The updated translation includes:
   Non-human ENTITIES – governments, boards, commissions, corporations – are persons, and by their nature are wiser and more sensible persons than the squishy kind of person.
   “Money” means “power.”
   “Freedom of speech” means “duty to listen to talk about political matters.”

   If there is more, let me know. I have to ice down my head now.

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