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That was interesting! I know classical music tells a story, but it’s fascinating to hear it broken down like that.
Also liked the little Ice Age meme in there 
Thanks for sharing!
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Hi!
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Hi 
How are you? How’s writing and stuff been going?
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Kinda lazy, because of work :c
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Aw, well, a little bit is still progress, even if that little bit is looking up a word or thinking about the plot
I am honestly not surprised, haha.I feel like every country has something amazing going for it and then something that’s like wait hold up lol.
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It’s called Obamacare because he’s the president it’s enacted under. People don’t mean it favorably, they want it stuck on his shoulders as the world burns. It’s the Affordable Care Act, and what it’s done to those who were previously ensured is made it unaffordable or damn near so. (We are still covered by hubby’s junk company covering the costs.)
It’s not ALL bad–I’m saying this as one who really hates that it fixed nothing that our system needs fixing on costs because that part is protected by lobbyists like crazy. We’d have to overhaul everything. In fact, if anything, it’s a part of the increases in cost when you have no insurance and the higher price tag on buying insurance.
The only part that it’s really helped everyone is “previous conditions” can’t be withheld from coverage by a new insurance plan, and flipped people into getting their care that they couldn’t previously (while some find it harder to get care). They give you a plan, your mess is covered. That’s a big deal if you’ve not had insurance this whole time and get diagnosed with cancer or something that’s going to cost a ton: then you can pay for insurance, and get something like 70% after the deductible. It will cost less in the long run, with insurance, then.
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I agree to that.
The prime minister is kinda meh right now.
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I’ll have to google 
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If the country wants people to make the country move the economy and everything, then why not give everyone free healthcare and insurance? 
I really don’t get it. Not just about the US, but about Japan, too.
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Free healthcare without fixing the price gouging means that we have 3x more Trillion dollar tax bills each year. For reference, that’s more than the total worth of our top 3 billionaires last I checked. To pay nothing towards that risks hyperinflation and since all nations are tapped to the US dollar, its going to be a global screwup.
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Yes.
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Then the tax thing needs to be fixed.
Idk…what even is a better world? 
If the president came to ask how you think he could make a better society including the economy, what would you say?
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Care to elaborate?
You know, when I was a kid, I thought adults had it all figured out but apparently, human relationships are hard, yet, totally necessary no matter what age you are.
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Context? 
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Okay so, I’ve decided to self publish Between Roses.
So, I created a question list for betas. This one is much better than the first one I made. I also have a much better idea about what I’m looking for. Interestingly, writing short book reviews on IG helped me figure out what kinds of responses I want from my betas.
I also think I want to be a secretary of sorts.
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We are tapdancing on quicksand, and the more you keep delaying the fallout, the worse it’s going to be. depressing the economy means you’re shrinking the dollar amounts and leads to more value in the dollar, and recessions are more a part of inflationary tatics. Either way, people lose. Just tackling this from the surface won’t do jack because the next set of hands touches it right behind that.
But we do know that the collapse of the Medeteranian Bronze age was due to how global the society was: when 1 fell, they all collapsed because they weren’t self-sustaining.
What other nations need to do is to chose another nation’s wealth to hinge everything on. OPEC keeps threatening to shift. Bitcoin is now one of El Salvador’s and Central African Republic’s currencies. That means there’s money to follow after when we fail to fix ourselves.
The push to buy/sell/make local is one that every nation needs to support, but we are tidelocked in debt and being the source of business for China.
The quickest way to negate debt would be to auction off Federal land. If we can clear the debt out the way, shrinking the money supply won’t go as crazy. Not spending more money than we have has to be a whole-of-congress chore.
To get them more in-line, one subject per bill passed is a must, but that’s been shot down every time.
Medical, especially medication price caps needs to be set at no more than 3x the cost to make, as in they have to prove the cost is X before they charge 3X. And really, that should be 2X but the 3rd is to pay towards research. Not a dollar ammount because some insulins might well cost $100 to make, and if it costs more to make but is more useful, then so be it if it’s expensive. Others cost $10, so there’s no reason why either extreme couldn’t exist at the same time.
But a lot more of this would take changing the fundamental nature of how we do everything. It would be a pain.
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I got a Ukiyo-e Tarot Card deck for my birthday but this was the only card I saw that had a fox on it.
Do you want to see how the lion is depicted?
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