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Me personally? I am concerned about dying of a preventable disease in my middle to old age and without work, there is no insurance. With no insurance, presumabl

Me personally? I am concerned about dying of a preventable disease in my middle to old age and without work, there is no insurance. With no insurance, presumably I would be left to die by a harsh, uncaring society. So I think your question might be reversed: what good is society doing for us, by forcing us to amass wealth because we are scared of being discarded to die early? The answer, of course, is that society accomplished by way of this blackmail the ability to deliver many plastic electronic consumer goods that would not otherwise be available.

WorldMaker 3y ago
Among other things, there is that ugly presumption that health insurance has to be tied to your employer. This is an interesting and almost peculiarly American viewpoint, because that's the status quo we frogs were slowly boiled in across decades and generations until few remember there's an option to jump out, that it isn't a "day spa" and we're all likely to die of this problem. Why should this be a concern of our employer and how much they think our "work" is worth? Why have we allowed this "blackmail" to rot all around us and settle into feeling so normal? Why do people that don't "work" deserve to die of preventable diseases? What makes them so undeserving/undesirable of health? Why are health insurers for-profit companies seeking so much greed and wealth at the expense of actual public health? Is this the society we really want to live in where we are all (yes, even Billionaires) three bad months away from homelessness and six bad months away from dying of something preventable? I assume that "the ability to deliver many plastic electronic consumer goods that would not otherwise be available" is a joke in the face of that existential terror, but I cannot tell any more on sites like HN.

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Me personally? I am concerned about dying of a preventable disease in my middle to old age and without work, there is no insurance. With no insurance, presumabl

by singleshot_ 3y ago

WorldMaker 3y ago
Among other things, there is that ugly presumption that health insurance has to be tied to your employer. This is an interesting and almost peculiarly American viewpoint, because that's the status quo we frogs were slowly boiled in across decades and generations until few remember there's an option to jump out, that it isn't a "day spa" and we're all likely to die of this problem. Why should this be a concern of our employer and how much they think our "work" is worth? Why have we allowed this "blackmail" to rot all around us and settle into feeling so normal? Why do people that don't "work" deserve to die of preventable diseases? What makes them so undeserving/undesirable of health? Why are health insurers for-profit companies seeking so much greed and wealth at the expense of actual public health? Is this the society we really want to live in where we are all (yes, even Billionaires) three bad months away from homelessness and six bad months away from dying of something preventable? I assume that "the ability to deliver many plastic electronic consumer goods that would not otherwise be available" is a joke in the face of that existential terror, but I cannot tell any more on sites like HN.