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Im tired of the media asking variations of the question: "why this thing that is supposed to be good, ruined by profit seeking?" The answer starts with "c" and
by my_city 4y ago
Im tired of the media asking variations of the question:
"why this thing that is supposed to be good, ruined by profit seeking?"
The answer starts with "c" and ends with "apitalism". Any other answer is bullshit.
- leetcrew 4y agookay, but this article is specifically about medicare fraud. this could just as easily be the setup for a hot take on how public benefits don't work, but I realize the problem is a little more nuanced than that.
- asdff 4y agoI figure its just to fill the bandwidth on the given issue with noise to prevent a wider anticapitalist agenda from becoming popular or even having these ideas become accessible. Now when you search for "why this thing that is supposed to be good, ruined by profit seeking?" you will probably not find an article condemning capitalism as a system among the top search results, and instead find all of these other articles that distract and deflect from the root issue.
- onlyrealcuzzo 4y agoYou can commit fraud at a non-profit: https://a2independent.com/2022/10/27/ann-arbor-non-profit-hospice-of-michigan-hit-with-false-claims-act-suit-alleging-widespread-medicaid-fraud/ https://a2independent.com/2022/10/27/ann-arbor-non-profit-ho... When you have a system like Medicare - that a few terrible people can abuse to extract hundreds of millions of dollars - it's going to happen, whether you have non-profits or for-profits, whether it's government corruption or private corruption. The problem is setting up a system that doesn't take fraud & corruption into consideration and have a real way of dealing with them - not Capitalism
- onemoresoop 4y ago> You can commit fraud at a non-profit The difference is that the other one for profit is not considered fraud, it's just working as intended to maximize profit