Author: Medecci Lineil

I always notice that people get angry about what they think the government is doing, especially when they refer to themselves as taxpayers. You know “As a taxpayer, I … ” What is interesting about this is the end of the sentence is never really about taxes. It is sort

Any healthcare system will not be able to solve inequalities everywhere. But that has not stopped policymakers from haring off after entirely the wrong idea in trying to work out what might be done to reduce health inequality. They are, sadly, blaming health inequality purely and entirely on the wider

VIEWPOINT I understand why people don’t care about vaping and public policy. If you’re not a smoker and haven’t experienced some of the costs of smoking in your own life—say, a relative dying young from lung cancer—it’s easy to just ignore it and laugh about the people who keep hammering

I finished rereading historian Frank Dikotter’s Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962 which I read for the first time two years ago. This is history that I think everyone should know something about and that few do, which is the famine in China from 1958

I predict that, because of artificial intelligence and its ability to automate certain tasks that in the past were impossible to automate, not only will we have a much wealthier civilization, but the quality of work will go up very significantly and a higher fraction of people will have callings

Pakatan Harapan will keep its pledge to create a million jobs. This is an idea that keeps repeating itself like a bad burrito. And apologies, but a government job guarantee, the idea that the government should just create a job for anyone who hasn’t got one and wants one, really

‘Do not be ashamed of your job … the value of the work you are doing and the personal gains that come from it.’ I have seen and spoken with a lot of people who work in different kinds of jobs — maintenance, cleaning, fast food, retail, dine-in restaurants and

I never do anything fun, because I’m a housewife. I hate that word ‘housewife.’ I prefer to be called ‘domestic goddess.’ – Roseanne Barr, American actress, comedian, writer, and television producer When asked what his wife does each day, a husband once said, “Nothing. She sits home, eats my money,