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I think tech workers just often don't realize nearly half of the country is eligible for either Medicare or Medicaid and that we're just part of the class of su
by mothballed 8mo ago
I think tech workers just often don't realize nearly half of the country is eligible for either Medicare or Medicaid and that we're just part of the class of sub-human subjects who get taxed into oblivion for transfer payments for almost half of everyone else but ourselves and on top of that have to pay (directly on indirectly through employment) for sky-high insurance rates that the medicare demographic disproportionately voted for policies that imposed such high rates on us.
- ta9000 8mo agoAnd then they spit on us anyway. Part of me wants to just CoastFI and take a lower paying job in spite.
- lucidone 8mo agoYour insurance system is a scam, but socialized health care is preferable to the alternatives.
- mothballed 8mo agoI think there has to be at least some level of tolerance for venting when you step out of work, walk up the street to the grocery store for a bite to eat. And on the street are drug addicts trying to sell you their food stamp card, which also means they are eligible for Medicaid, and meanwhile when your own family needs healthcare no one gives a flying fuck and you are on your own but by god you better pay taxes for half of everyone else to get that healthcare. All from personal experience. The message is if you contribute to society then you are left to die of whatever ailments you might get while being forced to cover half of everyone else's, but otherwise society will take care of your health if you choose to seek healthcare. Regardless of your stance on single payer healthcare, anyone can see what we have is a highly corrupt and contemptable system and what I am receiving is not "socialized" health care.
- wolvoleo 8mo agoNo, that's not socialised healthcare. If it were socialised it would be for everyone. Like here. What you have there is profit maximisation. The poor guys can't afford healthcare anyway so they give it to them for free but you're still scraping by to fill the big guys pockets. Because you can. But don't blame socialism for it because this is none of that.
- mothballed 8mo agoSomehow I'm paradoxically blaming socialism while also being acknowledged the thing I'm blaming isn't socialism and I explicitly said what I was getting was not that. And this is why it's so hard to discuss, because you are always damned either way by someone declaring that whatever you were talking about was in the other half of it's Schrödinger's socialism state at whatever moment you were talking about it.
- wolvoleo 8mo agoYou're right you did say that, sorry. I overlooked that. To be honest I'm a bit primed by the (mostly) republicans always attacking our welfare safety net, our healthcare, our kindness to immigrants etc. Even our lack of exploitative ultra-capitalism. Whereas for us these things work well. So I jumped to the defensive too quickly.