zeke5123a
1d ago
American Catholics by and large are willing to take their own counsel on matters of key religious doctrine (eg abortion).
zeke5123a
1d ago
American Catholics are so profoundly Protestant in attitudes even if they find beauty in the Catholic tradition.
zeke5123a
1d ago
Whilst Paul does not address government policy qua government, Paul states he who does not work does not eat (ie Paul recognized the danger of welfare without work requirement).
Thus, Christian mercy is mixed with Christian pragmatism. That is, while the scripture tells us to give the stranger a drink, it also tells us not to give the same stranger drink after drink.
zeke5123a
3d ago
I think some discrimination is positive for some high performers if ambitious. They know they have to actually work twice as hard to hit the same standard.
If I am looking at two employees who’ve been in corporate America and progressed rapidly through the ranks in the last ten years and one is a white male and the other is a protected class, I would generally expect the white male to be much more competent.
zeke5123a
4d ago
I thought about this. Employers also pay for their plan. I don’t know the details well enough to understand how the employers portion jives with the overall.
zeke5123a
5d ago
So if supply - demand curves are generally accurate, you want to decrease price but limiting supply, and think price will come down?
zeke5123a
5d ago
When your margin is capped, the only way to increase profit is increasing revenue. Predicted exploding costs means larger premiums means higher revenue.
Okay but you’d still expect competition to try to keep costs low to compete on premiums meaning you’d expect all things equal for insurance companies to want to keep costs low.
But the flip side to that is regulatory complexity means there are large moats to entrance decreasing competitive pressures.
He probably died from exhaustion after running 1,000 miles in a few days
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