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The fact that families have to crowdfund lifesaving care creates the vulnerability but it doesn't force anyone to build an industrialized scam on top of it
by eleveriven 10mo ago
The fact that families have to crowdfund lifesaving care creates the vulnerability but it doesn't force anyone to build an industrialized scam on top of it
- xeonmc 10mo agoLocal man embezzles $20,000 meant to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine.
- 867-5309 10mo agothere is no trolley
- lionkor 10mo agoOrphan crushing machine operator: "If I don't do it, someone else will"
- selfmodruntime 10mo agoOrphan crushing proponent: "Why should I pay for orphans not to be crushed??"
- fireflash38 10mo agoThere's money to be made on arbitration of orphan crushing! If I don't do it someone else will.
- reactordev 10mo agoIntroducing “The Automatic Orphan Crusher 9000” complete with conveyor belt fed chutes and titanium jaws, no orphan can escape! Just place a piece of candy…”
- barbazoo 10mo agoDoes it have AI?
- reactordev 10mo agoThat would be part of our Orphan Industries plan for managing output of your 9000s on the industrial floor. Sure. Monitor throughput and TTK right there from the app.
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- fwipsy 10mo agoThis framing is disingenuous. We're meant to say "tear down the orphan-crushing machine!" But in this case there's no machine, only human mortality. You're substituting a simple question ("why are we crushing orphans?") for a complex one ("who should pay for poor children's healthcare?") Also, the scale seems much larger than $20k.
- philipallstar 10mo agoNo-one is hoarding a free and easy supply of treatments. They're all hard-won advancements. The vulnerability is there by default.
- delfinom 10mo ago>but it doesn't force anyone to build an industrialized scam on top of it I mean almost the entirety of the US healthcare system is a industrialized scam engineered by middlemen
- MSFT_Edging 10mo ago> doesn't force anyone to build an industrialized scam on top of it The incentives are there. Our economy runs on incentives. Create a vulnerable group and the sharks smell blood in the water.
- laughingcurve 10mo agoIncentives don’t remove agency. They might have incentives… but these are awful scum who deserve nothing but contempt
- IAmBroom 10mo agoWell, that's a pretty bold stance. Scammers who steal from dying children are bad people? Geez...
- MSFT_Edging 10mo agoNo but it provides a framework to begin thinking about ways we can protect the vulnerable from these contemptible but totally predictable bad actors. For example, families forced to publicly beg for money to provide their sick children with treatment. What societal structures enable this situation to occur? Who is profiting off of this structure?
- pbhjpbhj 10mo agoYou'd have to be inconscionably crass to profiteer off charities treating kids for cancer ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation "Granting money to charities that rented Trump Organization facilities".
- hermannj314 10mo agoWhether taxes, health insurance, the Church, or gofundme, technically all life saving care is mostly crowd-funded. Maybe not in some Wild West dystopia, but generally the pooling of funds seems to work better than solo funding. Involuntary, progressive crowdfunding through government threat of violence (taxes) seems to work better than the other methods and most consider it humane. Americans have shown little interest historically in doing the humane thing, unfortunately.
- buellerbueller 10mo agoTaxes: the price one must pay for civilization.