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Health care is not wealth.
by inimino 7y ago
Health care is not wealth.
- ako 7y agoYour health is the most valuable thing you have. If, for example, someone has a life threatening illness like cancer, they would gladly sell most of their stuff to pay to get their health back. Your health is more valuable than a garage full of Ferraris. Taking care of that wealth is important. It baffles me how people can smoke sigaretes. It's like cleaning your Ferrari with a scouring pad.
- journalctl 7y agoYou’ve never been addicted to a drug, have you.
- inimino 7y agoNo amount of wealth (which is a fancy word for lots of money) can buy health. Therefore, health is not wealth. It is, as you say, more valuable than that.
- Ericson2314 7y agoYou can view inequality and bad health in the US together as a mutually reinforcing expropriation. On an individual level you cannot buy or sell health, but on an aggregate level they blur. Bad
- Ericson2314 7y agoEh, just because everyone deserves is doesn't mean it's not wealth. Lack of health care is anti-wealth. Maybe you should consider that everyone deserves some wealth in general.
- inimino 7y agoBy definition wealthy, adj. having a great deal of money, resources, or assets; rich most people are not wealthy. Health is not wealth. You deserve access to life-saving health care you can't afford, even if you don't "deserve" to be rich.