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> these systems are full of nasty people This is everywhere. Paying out of pocket does not fix this.

• bjornsing 3y ago
  It does in one very important way: You don’t have to keep paying the exact people who victimized you.
  • rejectfinite 3y ago
    You can change hospital/primary care though? And any country has a connected system. If not taxes then its gonna be insurance.
    • bjornsing 3y ago
      > You can change hospital/primary care though? By law, yes. In practice, no. I think this is what may be hard to understand if you haven’t experienced it: if you fall far enough in Swedish society you are essentially dehumanized.
• bjornsing 3y ago
  One more important difference: It’s terrible to die on a park bench because you can’t support yourself and other people won’t help you. But in my mind it’s worse to die on a park bench because the state extracted 60-70% taxes from you, and now won’t give you even a small portion of that back. To me that’s just inhuman…