From the 1980 census...

Inflation isn't equal...

Industries that want to make profits (especially enrich top management) are curves above the wage curve. Industries that want to make better products (innovate) are curves below the wage curve.

This Slate Star Codex article teases out why Insulin is expensive.

First comment notes that fancy insulin for pumps is expensive, regular ol' shoot-yourself-in-the-thigh insulin is dirt cheap. I don't know how true that is?

It is partially true. (My friend's child is diabetic.) 1.) You still have to find a source for the shoot-yourself-in-the-thigh insulin, which is harder than it used to be, 2.) shoot-yourself-in-the-thigh is genuinely inferior to pump insulin as far as blood sugar regulation, and it's also not something you can just switch back and forth between when you're a little short on cash, and 3.) the cost of pump insulin by itself has still skyrocketed unreasonably, independent of the price of thigh insulin or how many people are using which one.

Personally, insulin's gotten so much attention recently--and has enough old white patients taking it--that I bet the situation gets fixed sooner rather than later. The Buspirone saga at the front end of the article is less eye-catching, and thus more concerning, to me.

As both sides become extreme

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Corn is King...

Manly men vote Red...

Interesting. Something to think about.

Yeah, buy guns 'cause them brown bitches be squirtin' out little socialists by the litter. :rolleyes:

You would not (safely) say that anywhere else (except maybe in a Charlotte hate rally approved of by Trump).

Interesting. Something to think about.

People using unamurican language at home...

Very interesting. I wonder what the "other" is in all those counties by Cape Cod? I'm thinking maybe Italian, but those migrants came over so many generations ago I would think they are all assimilated by now.