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If your wealth and well-being is tied to the puppy crushing machine continuing to crush puppies, maybe it's time to reflect on that and reconsider the systems w

by hnbad 4y ago

If your wealth and well-being is tied to the puppy crushing machine continuing to crush puppies, maybe it's time to reflect on that and reconsider the systems we take for granted.

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pcthrowaway 4y ago
Let's not pretend there wouldn't be massive industry around puppy-crushing machines if it was profitable for corporations, and marginally legal. Decades of industry centered around killing other baby animals have shown this. If anything, it's likely that the lack of a profit motive for "puppy-crushing" has shaped society's general distaste for "companion animal" abuse, while accepting other types of animal abuse as just a way of life.
- banannaise 4y ago
  There is a massive industry around puppy-crushing machines. We call them "puppy mills" and they're large commercial operations that overbreed puppies for sale and kill the undesirables.
weatherlite 4y ago
I wouldn't say my well-being but we all make a living in this industry, it's what pays the bills. Guess you don't care about that?
- Apocryphon 4y ago
  This industry involves plenty more than VCs, particularly these VCs.
- InitialLastName 4y ago
  There are plenty of bits of the tech industry that aren't powered by hype and free money.
- hnbad 4y ago
  That's why I said reflect on the system, not just your own actions within it. You can try to switch careers from a job that actively crushes puppies to one that merely maintains the puppy crushing machine, but the problem is the puppy crushing itself and if the only way to pay your bills is to contribute to that, that's a systemic problem, not one of personal responsibility.
alright_scowl 4y ago
> If your wealth and well-being is tied to the puppy crushing machine Let's crush some puppies m'boy. Them bills, they keep coming.
adpirz 4y ago
There are puppy crushing machines everywhere. E.g. physicians in the US are paid high premiums relative to other OPEC countries not because their quality of care of experience is significantly higher, but because of the insurance model we have here [1]. Capitalism works for everyone only with strong guardrails which have instead been eroding for decades. [1] https://nypost.com/2023/02/19/doctor-insurance-companies-want-you-to-die-as-quickly-as-possible/ https://nypost.com/2023/02/19/doctor-insurance-companies-wan...
- paulmd 4y ago
  Also because of massive student-debt loads - the average GP came out with like $250k even a few years ago. Someone's gotta pay that, and ultimately it's the patients. The US medical system is so fucked it's almost hard to narrow it down to specific reasons: essentially it's at the nexus of the symptoms of virtually every crisis-of-capitalism that the US has allowed to fester over the last 70 years. Patents, education, insurance/financialization, employer-labor relations, federalism-induced complexity from state-level rulemaking (and racing to the bottom when that doesn't happen), racial bias to outcomes... I'm sure there's tons that I'm forgetting offhand. Basically name a high-level problem/trend in american society and you can almost 100% certainly come up with a reasonable thesis for how that problem is making the american medical system worse. similarly, name a group of powerful stakeholders and you can be sure that reform of the system will probably impact them negatively on a personal/financial level. Seniors? Investors? Doctors? Universities? etc etc. to me it is without a doubt the single most politically-complex and personally-charged issue in the entire US system and that's really saying something.
  - weatherlite 4y ago
    > Also because of massive student-debt loads - the average GP came out with like $250k even a few years ago. Someone's gotta pay that, and ultimately it's the patients. I doubt that's the reason for high doctor wages. They will keep making a huge buck even if tuition is cut by 80% imo. The reason I'm saying this is that the market doesn't care how much debt you have from school: you can pay Harvard 240K to get an art degree, that's not going to make anyone pay you what doctors are earning. You can become unemployed with big debt as you graduate.

by hnbad 4y ago

If your wealth and well-being is tied to the puppy crushing machine continuing to crush puppies, maybe it's time to reflect on that and reconsider the systems we take for granted.

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pcthrowaway 4y ago

Let's not pretend there wouldn't be massive industry around puppy-crushing machines if it was profitable for corporations, and marginally legal. Decades of industry centered around killing other baby animals have shown this. If anything, it's likely that the lack of a profit motive for "puppy-crushing" has shaped society's general distaste for "companion animal" abuse, while accepting other types of animal abuse as just a way of life.

banannaise 4y ago
There is a massive industry around puppy-crushing machines. We call them "puppy mills" and they're large commercial operations that overbreed puppies for sale and kill the undesirables.

weatherlite 4y ago

I wouldn't say my well-being but we all make a living in this industry, it's what pays the bills. Guess you don't care about that?

Apocryphon 4y ago
This industry involves plenty more than VCs, particularly these VCs.
InitialLastName 4y ago
There are plenty of bits of the tech industry that aren't powered by hype and free money.
hnbad 4y ago
That's why I said reflect on the system, not just your own actions within it. You can try to switch careers from a job that actively crushes puppies to one that merely maintains the puppy crushing machine, but the problem is the puppy crushing itself and if the only way to pay your bills is to contribute to that, that's a systemic problem, not one of personal responsibility.

alright_scowl 4y ago

> If your wealth and well-being is tied to the puppy crushing machine Let's crush some puppies m'boy. Them bills, they keep coming.

adpirz 4y ago

There are puppy crushing machines everywhere. E.g. physicians in the US are paid high premiums relative to other OPEC countries not because their quality of care of experience is significantly higher, but because of the insurance model we have here [1]. Capitalism works for everyone only with strong guardrails which have instead been eroding for decades. [1] https://nypost.com/2023/02/19/doctor-insurance-companies-want-you-to-die-as-quickly-as-possible/ https://nypost.com/2023/02/19/doctor-insurance-companies-wan...

paulmd 4y ago
Also because of massive student-debt loads - the average GP came out with like $250k even a few years ago. Someone's gotta pay that, and ultimately it's the patients. The US medical system is so fucked it's almost hard to narrow it down to specific reasons: essentially it's at the nexus of the symptoms of virtually every crisis-of-capitalism that the US has allowed to fester over the last 70 years. Patents, education, insurance/financialization, employer-labor relations, federalism-induced complexity from state-level rulemaking (and racing to the bottom when that doesn't happen), racial bias to outcomes... I'm sure there's tons that I'm forgetting offhand. Basically name a high-level problem/trend in american society and you can almost 100% certainly come up with a reasonable thesis for how that problem is making the american medical system worse. similarly, name a group of powerful stakeholders and you can be sure that reform of the system will probably impact them negatively on a personal/financial level. Seniors? Investors? Doctors? Universities? etc etc. to me it is without a doubt the single most politically-complex and personally-charged issue in the entire US system and that's really saying something.
- weatherlite 4y ago
  > Also because of massive student-debt loads - the average GP came out with like $250k even a few years ago. Someone's gotta pay that, and ultimately it's the patients. I doubt that's the reason for high doctor wages. They will keep making a huge buck even if tuition is cut by 80% imo. The reason I'm saying this is that the market doesn't care how much debt you have from school: you can pay Harvard 240K to get an art degree, that's not going to make anyone pay you what doctors are earning. You can become unemployed with big debt as you graduate.