Looks like "the people" pay for 70% of the healthcare costs. That means essentially, it's young people paying to support old people. That's not a good system at all and why it's terrible. It will essentially drag young people down such that most resources in society are diverted toward caring for the elderly who themselves are not productive.
It's a sure way to destroy your society.
This is why a fully privatized system where people are responsible for 100% of the healthcare costs is the most efficient because only those old people who own significant amount of resources themselves will be able to afford care and in doing so will be redistributing resources from the rich to the poor (so to speak). Whereas, given Japan's system, you're going to see a redistribution of resources from the young to the old and the old will simply die anyway instead of adding anything productive. It's entirely a waste of resources that will make everyone poorer.
Looks like "the people" pay for 70% of the healthcare costs.
Idk Japan's tax structure, but I assume rich people pay most of the taxes so not really "the people."
Whereas, given Japan's system, you're going to see a redistribution of resources from the young to the old and the old will simply die anyway instead of adding anything productive.
The people who perform the labor to care for the elderly will get paid, though. It's not like you are giving old people wealth to hoard.
And if we paid everyone in society to dig ditches, does that mean we're all rich? You have to be doing something productive. By paying people to care for the elderly, you are diverting your resources toward that cause, thereby diverting away your labor in other industries which add productivity in other respects. It's a net negative, no matter how you look at it.
Even if "rich people" pay most of the taxes, you're still diverting resources away from other areas that could better serve the people.
You say, it's a moral prerogative, well what about the moral aspects of doing what is right for the young people. Isn't the whole purpose of old people having children is to pass the torch from the old to the young. Isn't it immoral for old people to demand so many resources on society they rob the quality of life from their children? A moral old person shouldn't want to drag down the young people and should want to simply kill himself to give his children a better life. You ask what is the purpose of working 40 years. For the next generation, is it not? This idea that you work to enjoy a retirement is new age boomer bullshit and part of why our society is so trash because boomers stopped caring about the next generation so long as they got their vacations. That's not a great way to build a society either. A good moral old person should want to die 5 years earlier instead of take up a bunch of worthless resources just to prolong his life well past his prime.
I don't think there is anything wrong with paying people to build yachts and mansions are long as the people doing the paying, deserve the resources they have to do the paying. If the government was taxing people to pay for yachts, I'd have a problem with that.
Corporations? Or the government? Who is footing the bill? The people or corporations?
https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Health_care_system_in_Japan
Looks like "the people" pay for 70% of the healthcare costs. That means essentially, it's young people paying to support old people. That's not a good system at all and why it's terrible. It will essentially drag young people down such that most resources in society are diverted toward caring for the elderly who themselves are not productive.
It's a sure way to destroy your society.
This is why a fully privatized system where people are responsible for 100% of the healthcare costs is the most efficient because only those old people who own significant amount of resources themselves will be able to afford care and in doing so will be redistributing resources from the rich to the poor (so to speak). Whereas, given Japan's system, you're going to see a redistribution of resources from the young to the old and the old will simply die anyway instead of adding anything productive. It's entirely a waste of resources that will make everyone poorer.
Idk Japan's tax structure, but I assume rich people pay most of the taxes so not really "the people."
The people who perform the labor to care for the elderly will get paid, though. It's not like you are giving old people wealth to hoard.
And if we paid everyone in society to dig ditches, does that mean we're all rich? You have to be doing something productive. By paying people to care for the elderly, you are diverting your resources toward that cause, thereby diverting away your labor in other industries which add productivity in other respects. It's a net negative, no matter how you look at it.
Even if "rich people" pay most of the taxes, you're still diverting resources away from other areas that could better serve the people.
You say, it's a moral prerogative, well what about the moral aspects of doing what is right for the young people. Isn't the whole purpose of old people having children is to pass the torch from the old to the young. Isn't it immoral for old people to demand so many resources on society they rob the quality of life from their children? A moral old person shouldn't want to drag down the young people and should want to simply kill himself to give his children a better life. You ask what is the purpose of working 40 years. For the next generation, is it not? This idea that you work to enjoy a retirement is new age boomer bullshit and part of why our society is so trash because boomers stopped caring about the next generation so long as they got their vacations. That's not a great way to build a society either. A good moral old person should want to die 5 years earlier instead of take up a bunch of worthless resources just to prolong his life well past his prime.
Out of curiosity, do you have the same aversion to paying people to build yachts, mansions, etc. ?
I don't think there is anything wrong with paying people to build yachts and mansions are long as the people doing the paying, deserve the resources they have to do the paying. If the government was taxing people to pay for yachts, I'd have a problem with that.