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  • Human knowledge is always cumulative ya dunce.

    Human knowledge can be (and historically, often has been) destroyed as well as accumulated. It’s a myth originating with the Whigs that history always moved in the direction of progress. As recent political events in the US have shown, that’s not true.

    nationalization doesn’t work, and it has never worked

    Except, for example, in every developed-world health care delivery system, all of which massively outperform the private-sector US system both on cost and on outcomes. Likewise, fire departments, interstate highway systems, public water supplies, armies, etc, etc.

    So before calling someone a dunce, you might do well to learn more about the many things you don’t know.