Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption, as Stanford — which posted the video this week on YouTube — today made the video of the event private.

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Yes, we can’t afford it, because we chose to spend all of our money on the military.

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This sounds like we could afford it, we just need to take that money back from the military…

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Yes, but also, America. It’s not that I don’t want these things, I just think they’re politically impossible.

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We could switch to Medicare for All and save a couple hundred billion a year to do it.

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Overall, not without raising taxes though. The money just doesn’t stop getting spent by people and appear in the government budget without it.

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If your “taxes” go up by $7 but your health insurance costs go down by $10, why the hell would you care? There are several more dollars in your pocket. Or if you are concerned about tax amount, let’s rename current health insurance fees to taxes and we can simply market Medicare for All as a massive tax cut that increases service.

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