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Half-joking, half-serious counter: why not socialize the costs and socialize the profits, too? Think big!
by spondylosaurus 2y ago
Half-joking, half-serious counter: why not socialize the costs and socialize the profits, too? Think big!
- doctorpangloss 2y agoPublic universities and their hospital systems are the largest employers in many cities and states. The status quo is already somewhat socialized. Like some dollars from expensive hospital procedures and drug research royalties go to the insanely bloated admins of these university-hospital systems, paying salaries of people who basically could be eliminated overnight and no one would notice, who are working 11am to 4pm 3 days a week, and whose primary qualification is graduating the same university system and occasionally being the partner or relative of another employee of it. On the one hand you imagine something that is Socialized, in some imaginary way, in your head, that only you know, fine. But think critically about whom is employed by pharmaceuticals, how did they get to that station in life, and maybe it starts to look like things being socialized more than they seem.