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What's the difference? Cut deeply enough - take out entire companies - and people lose their jobs. People can't eat. People lose their health insurance that a
by eckza 6y ago
What's the difference?
Cut deeply enough - take out entire companies - and people lose their jobs.
People can't eat. People lose their health insurance that allows them to afford their life-saving medication.
At some point, it's not just "big corporations"; it's the people that work for them, too.
- chrisrogers 6y agoJob loss is not the equivalent of death. Full stop.
- yzmtf2008 6y agoThat’s an incredibly naive way of viewing things. Not everyone can afford losing their job. Let’s say job loss increases your chance of dying by 5% — not an exaggeration in some communities — 20 jobs lost is exactly the same as one death. There's a very specific value of human life: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/835571843 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/835571843
- HenryBemis 6y agoTell that to a family where both parents are unemployed, they got 2-3 kids, a mortgage, a couple of maxed credit cards, they used to live paycheck-to-paycheck, one of the kids needs special care that the state doesn't provide due to budget cuts. Now take this scenario to every major financial crisis (e.g. USA today, Latin America for the past couple of decades, some EU countries hit 20-30% unemployment a decade ago, and are still recovering). It won't kill them instantly but consider what it does to them, if it turns them to crime, alcoholism, depression, and the general impact on the quality of life.
- gorbachev 6y ago"People lose their health insurance that allows them to afford their life-saving medication." Only in one country on the planet.