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Suggesting there aren't malicious forces actively pushing for their bottom line over say, structural changes that would improve healthcare for everyone is reall

• ethbro 8y ago
  Are there greedy people out there? Of course. Do I spend time focusing on them? Not a minute. That's what the justice system is for, and it's not terrible at punishing people who break the law. Th difference is in outcome. If you focus on people, you get to feel righteous, targeted anger, and nothing ever changes. If you focus on the system, you're left viscerally unsatisfied ("The US healthcare system is dysfunctional? I can't yell at that..."), but might effect real change.
• beaconstudios 8y ago
  often, the malicious force actively pushing for increasing profits is systemic itself - the responsibility of public company executives to maximise shareholder value. also, most of the time I think "evil greedy people" is just people who are far enough abstracted away from the impact of their deeds that they have no connection to the impact. If you're looking at departmental budgets all day, you probably don't see the patient who gets refused treatment.