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And that is why US is spending so much effort making sure the basic needs stay unmet.
by hoseja 5y ago
And that is why US is spending so much effort making sure the basic needs stay unmet.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 5y agoI had to think about it. Is it a conscious design effort or just a function otherwise unrelated issues?
- nebulous_two 5y agoIt's not a conscious design effort in the sense that the blueprints were designed and implemented this way. It's more that gradually with every political decision that is based on greed, we sink deeper in a world that is defined by it.
- hoseja 5y agoI don't think any social engineers have been quite so mask-off but I'm not sure.
- jjoonathan 5y agoIt's the net effect of asset holders working in their collective self interest and a society that allows them to. They are on the other side of the bargaining table from the needy and much, much stronger. The moment the lower classes obtain a bit of spare cash and start to think about climbing Maslow's Hierarchy, rent goes up and the spare cash vanishes. Or wages inflate away and shareholders benefit. In any case, someone with an asset is standing by to hoover up the cash. It's not exactly malice -- it's self interest with lopsided power dynamics and neglect for side effects -- but the dedication with which people weave excuses around this process can really feel like it's malicious some times.
- TOMDM 5y agoWhat money is the US spending in order to worsen it's own citizens basic needs? Not needs it stubbornly refuses to subsidize, but actively making sure they remain unmet?
- smordistan 5y agoUniversal health care for one. Were you actually asking in good faith? This gets brought up fairly often.
- TOMDM 5y agoUniversal healthcare would be a fantastic move for the US. I don't think the US spends money on making healthcare worse for people though. (Unless you want to argue that universal healthcare would be cheaper than the current standard and thus by way of opportunity cost the US is spending on worsening the healthcare of it's citizens)
- phone8675309 5y agoThe US actively spends money propping up a broken healthcare subsidized marketplace and means-testing people as a way to gatekeep Medicaid, both of which prevent people from accessing affordable/single-payer healthcare.
- smordistan 5y agoThat is the primary logic behind universal health care.
- dv_dt 5y agoThe US is spending money adding more and more privatized middlemen to Medicare which is only increasing the inefficiency of the program. e.g. https://www.levernews.com/seniors-medicare-benefits-are-being-privatized-without-consent/ https://www.levernews.com/seniors-medicare-benefits-are-bein...
- d33 5y agoI'd go with a TSA as an example of such spending. It's a net negative to the society - lots of money being spent to give an impression of security while it's proven that they clearly fail at their mission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration#Criticism_and_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Admini...