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They decided to live off 30k a year with no health insurance. What did they think would happen?

• lmm 4y ago
  Would it have been any different if they did have health insurance? Under the US system I read plenty of stories of people who did everything right - had top insurance and lots of savings - but were still rendered destitute.
• wardedVibe 4y ago
  fuck the poors, right?
• komali2 4y ago
  Would you rather live in a world where we don't have things like Dwarf Fortress? Their passion has been the game, as they understood it, they weren't able to make it and have health insurance (as I recall from the documentary, there were some issues getting remote jobs, and health insurance out of pocket is apparently prohibitively expensive in the USA). Why are you blaming them and not the system?
  • Gigachad 4y ago
    They always had the option to start selling the game. He could have put it up for sale years ago. He produced an enormous amount of value and chose to not collect the earnings until now.
  • nonethewiser 4y ago
    > Would you rather live in a world where we don't have things like Dwarf Fortress? 1. we do have Dwarf Fortress. 2. It's not our collective responsibility to finance people who want to make art I'm not blaming the system because it's not the limiting factor here. They did not prioritize their financial security so why should society do it instead? They have all the tools to finance their lives yet opted not to. They learned this themselves and corrected it when they realized it was unsustainable. The worst possible scenario is subsidizing their previous lifestyle. Insurance not covering medically necessary procedures and hospitals charging exorbitant prices is a problem, not this.