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Keeping someone like Blake a functioning and contributing member of society seems like a good basic economic sense. Having people with manageable illnesses ge
by duxup 2y ago
Keeping someone like Blake a functioning and contributing member of society seems like a good basic economic sense. Having people with manageable illnesses getting sick / hospitalized all the time and losing their jobs makes no sense.
- actionfromafar 2y agoThe solution could be so simple. One insurance system for everyone, which makes purchases for the whole country to drive prices down. Unfortunately it’s illegal. Now THAT would be the place to start looking for inefficiencies, alas we have chainsaws instead.
- bell-cot 2y ago> ...a functioning and contributing member of society seems like a good basic economic sense... At the scale of our whole society - yes, obviously. But current-day American capitalism is built around the idea that short-term self-enrichment is the only legitimate optimization.