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"You exist to make money for us"
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Gilded Age 2.0 has been their goal since the last one didn't work out.
They had to begrudgingly push out the New Deal because they knew that a violent socialist revolution where the owners get strung up from their own chandeliers was the probable alternative.
Now they probably think modern security and propaganda will prevent all that, or they're just ignorant, shortsighted, and greedy, and they haven't really considered the consequences.
We never should have accepted the compromise.
Now they probably think modern security and propaganda will prevent all that, or they’re just ignorant, shortsighted, and greedy, and they haven’t really considered the consequences.
It's both, but they aren't wrong about the first part.
But that's not the goal of the health care system, at least in the US. Pharmaceuticals, hospitals, insurance companies, they are all part of a larger capitalist system that prioritizes profit above all else. It's a conflict of interest, with the owners of the business on one side and the customers on the other. One guess which of those two gets to make the decisions on how the business runs. So, no, it's not designed to keep you healthy, it's designed to make a profit. And if the largest profit comes from making us healthy, then good for us. But either way we don't get a say.
Ghoul shit
This is actually the reason why universal healthcare exists so
Okay except they're making us all less healthy..soo..
You mean they're creating jobs in the healthcare sector?
Get back to work cog! Be grateful we give you anything at all! /s
Money seems to get in the way of everything. We need a new middleman.
Work supports my life, not the other way around.
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2025
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