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I feel you. There's so much shit-giving when you're poor. You can't afford to outsource maintenance. You must figure it all out yourself: car maintenance, appli
by nicbou 4y ago
I feel you. There's so much shit-giving when you're poor. You can't afford to outsource maintenance. You must figure it all out yourself: car maintenance, appliance repair, taxes etc. There's always something you've gotta figure out. With a bit of money, you make a phone call and someone else is liable for any trouble that might arise.
- corrral 4y agoThat's part of why I think the benefits of the US moving to some kind of single-payer or similar healthcare system would be much larger than they look based on a naïve cost calculation—our healthcare system consumes a ton of largely uncompensated giving-a-shit from a very large proportion of our society (basically everyone who's not very rich). I have to think that's harming other activities (including health itself, since, as covered, eating well and exercising requires a pretty large amount of giving-a-shit) some of which might provide direct benefits to measures like GDP, if some of that time and giving-a-shit were recovered for other purposes.