If the library owned an effectively infinite copies of each book why wouldn’t they let you borrow one copy of each book?

The online library known as archive.org tried exactly this. They got sued, to no one’s surprise.

Because authors and publishers wouldn't be very excited about that and would lobby governments to limit that (and I 100% believe they would be right to do that).

1 second of jail for every second of American time wasted

That doesn't even account for the scams, life savings lost, ruined relationships.

Surgeries failed because the doctor didn't get enough sleep because they forgot to put their phone on silent... (I refuse to blame the victim here.)

While it would be hard to definitively trace any specific death, statistically these spammers are also mass murderers.

You pay enoug for trash in the Bay Area to pay a person to sort the trash by hand

> to pay a person

Not in the Bay Area

We have community college + low cost state colleges. CC is almost free, cheap state colleges probably will cause a little debt. Some part time job will probably offset most of this.

Completely free will be abused probably, let’s be honest

What about the right to refuse? I don’t think there actually is a problem here, there’s no reason for this Pharma company to provide an expensive untested drug- only potential negatives

I don’t think these people would be useful. Pharma needs controlled double blind studies to actually tell if the therapies work.

Of course, for actual efficacy, but you can tell if a treatment has a negative reaction or fails to effect the expected physiology in the expected way with a very small number of samples.

If everyone you give it to dies from reactions, or the expected effects seem to be happening on a physiological level, you don’t know much about efficacy but you do know a lot more about the eventual prospects for an actual clinical trial. It’s basically an extension of en-vidrio testing.

Doctors don’t make 200k+ in those countries either

Don’t need the return 0?

Oregon County increases taxes to pay for the 10 year lawsuit and everyone claps :) what’s another 0.6% am I right?

I wish more people were aware how much water goes to agriculture and would react accordingly when their government asks them to cut water usage or raises prices - 90% goes to (largely wasteful) farming and they don’t really pay…

It’s not the people taking 2 (gasp) showers a day fault, it’s the almond farmers using floors irrigation

I wish I could upvote this comment 10 times.

This is a political problem. In fact, maybe it's the purest form of political problem: "there's a limited resource. Who gets how much of it?"