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And they could edit it and correct the mistake.

And they're doing live events in large concert halls for their many fans.

“To make that happen, we need to keep doing what we do best: telling a compelling story,” the head of the MPA explained.

Is that 'making up compelling stories' that end in 'would somebody please think of the children'? Is there any basis that piracy and illegal content are related? I mean I get that people include malware and share regular pornography... I dont get why it makes the MPA sad when their enemies get infected by viruses...

Jellyfin or another DLNA capable server if the TV comes with a DLNA/UPnP player?

I don't think that's what the graph shows at all. It shows what the average person spends on healthcare each year versus what they get out of it (life expectancy.)

It does so for several countries and shows how things changed over the last half a century. The steeper a line of a country is, the more the healthcare system and medicine has improved. The flatter a line is, the more money you're pumping into the system for less benefit. And medicine should improve. We've made quite some progress since the 1970s and found cures to ilnesses that were a death sentence back then.

That people need more treatment if they're old is a true fact. But it's not really depicted in this graph. Sure it's somewhere in the numbers but you'd need a different diagram for that. Keep in mind that also in the 1970s people grew older and there were old people around... People had grandmas back then. And also people nowadays are healthier for a longer period of time and also retire later. These things work against what demographics makes worse. But it also doesn't cancel out each other. You'd need a more comprehensive study and more number to tell, not just speculation which is most certainly wrong.

But the mere fact that the line for the USA is such an outliar shows that there is something severely wrong with that healthcare system. And you can see when it started and that it steadily continues this way. Either you're a different species and medicine works differently for US citizens than for Europeans, or you have severely unique circumstances in the country, or you're just getting ripped off and some people get rich with the billions that don't contribute towards health.

And that you someday retire and become a burden on the system is how it's supposed to be. That's why you paid all the money during the decades you worked, despite not being sick (yet.)

And there are some more pecularities in the graph. For example you can see that life expectancy is actually decreasing(!) in the last years. That could depict the drugs (Fentanyl deaths) and the rise of suicide in the last years. I'm not sure but these could be possible explanations. Also im Germany where I live mortality rises. Especially during the Covid years and somehow it affects people from the eastern parts of Germany more than people from the western part of the country. That's all not in this graph however and the reasons are complex. I'm not sure what the cause is for the decline shortly before 2018. People speculate it's influenza waves and things like that.

To talk to random internet strangers. Discuss life, computer issues, politics and whatnot. Sometimes I learn something. Sometimes I ask random questions that I didn't find anwers to. Sometimes I just spend my downtime scrolling through posts.

What do you use it for?

That was the graph that opened my eyes a bit back in another discussion. I knew that people were dying in the States because they can't afford insulin/medication/treatment. But I somehow thought they were at least paying less for healthcare and just poor and society didn't care about people in need. But it's way worse. They are dying 2 years earlier WHILE paying twice as much for healthcare. And ruined financially if anything happens to them or their loved ones.

And all of that is a scheme to rip off everyone. Sadly a quite successful scheme for decades already. I mean I'm really amazed by the extent. And I wonder if it were possible to adopt another style, give healthcare to everyone plus every citizen an additional $5.000 for free each year. I don't really see that happening though. Every government in the past decades, no matter their color, has contributed to keep that graph going in this direction.

Edit: And I'd like to see that diagram for a few other countries. Not just against Europe, Japan, Australia, Israel and Korea.

Hmmh. I recently learned about that. Seems to be roughly 1980 (Reagan era?) when things started going really sideways and nowadays it's just bad beyond words...

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_United_States

It is unique to the way healthcare works in the USA. I don't know why, the complete system looks broken. I can only tell you we pay less for healthcare here in Europe and we don't have to call unless it's really complicated and a rare situation. I'm sorry if that sound a bit off and doesn't help...

Sure. But I'd drop the premises for that discussion. A post-privacy world is probably where convenience trumps everything. Everything is commercialized even more. Access to the internet isn't free any more, options like selfhosting or uploading things are heavily restricted and each and every service requires you to show your ID card into the webcam and give them your phone number. All private is being sold and AI shows you ADs and propaganda like in the old scifi movies.

I mean we're already half-way there. And I think it's especially bad that all the people use closed services that require me to dox myself and give them my phone number if I want to participate. It's just that we still have alternatives. It now needs politics to cut down access to the internet so only the big companies can host platforms and then force them to stop piracy. And cut the free flow of information and connections to other countries with other legislation. Reasons could be to protect intellectual property, stop crime (also like in the old dystopian movies) or "would somebody please think of the children"... These attempts to take away freedom happen regularly in politics. I think a post-privacy world would simultaneously be one without freedom. Either a scifi dystopia, a Cory Doctorow novel or like in the countries where they currently filter the internet successfully, which aren't democratic countries.

I think I'm far more concerned with the loss of any privacy or freedom in such scenarios. Not being able to pirate things would be a minor inconvenience in such hypothetical worlds.

I strongly doubt that it'll happen out of the reasons OP gave. They're all technical in nature. And in the past we were always able to circumvent the technical ones. Countermeasures have also improved. I don't see a reason why it's different now. But I think society could change and affect this. And there are anti-democratic things happening currently...

1. It's open source and grants me the opportunity to participate.

2. It's distributed (federated) and not just one company making the choices for me and all of us.

3. No ADs, gamification and nagging me to buy in-game currency.

Yeah, and it has an usable app.

I think the most important aspect to me is 1) the freedom it provides me with. I don't like all my communication being in the hand of big tech companies.

I hate people doing that here. It's always unreadable since people took the screenshot on a PC and the text is tiny and I need to scroll sideways every 8 words... Or I'm at the PC and the screenshot is just 3 sentences without a link to read the rest.

I'd say let them train their AI on my comments. I just want a share of the finished product in exchange.