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The on-going debate looks likely to continue for a while (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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We are told we live in a world where everyone is equal, but when someone (or quite a lot of someones) suggest that the death of a rich white man might not be the tragedy we are told to think it is, suddenly all of the other rich white men are upset that that is the prevailing view, and they want to use their platforms to tell us that "yes it is and we should think it is"

If you ask most people they will tell you the lesson I learned a long time ago -- a lesson most of us learn relatively young.

Not all deaths are worth mourning. You don't have to celebrate them, but you don't have to pretend that you are sad they are dead either.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

...the killing should nevertheless open a debate....

No, not debating anymore. There should be no profit in healthcare. No shareholders. All the money I spend on premiums and copays had better go towards paying someone's medical bills. If someone is making billions of dollars by making someone else's life miserable, I won't mourn when those enablers are removed from the table.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Precisely. Insurance is by its very nature incompatible with capitalism. Because while those who need it are always under duress, the profit motive is always to deny the claim.

This applies to every type of insurance out there, from critical things like health all the way down to something as meaningless as insuring your jet ski.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Big edit: im a big dumb that can't read. Roast me, it's my kink

Not true. The concept of insurance is pretty much socialism. A bunch of people, or a community ,pool some of their resources for a certain emergency, and cover the people that have that emergency with the money set aside.

The capitalists hijacked that process and made it for profit.

The only way to make money on that is either:

  • ask people to pay more for the same coverage or less.
  • make sure the least possible amount of people claim part of the pooled money.

There is also gambling the coverage money on the market, but it is not inherent the concept of insurance itself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Honestly, I used to work in property and casualty insurance (very different from health and life insurance, but I stopped because it was in conflict with my morals), and we gambled premiums on the market. It doesn’t seem like a good idea, but my former company has been around for hundreds of years and paid out 98-102% of premiums collected for claims.

I recently learned that the ACA required at least 85% of premiums to go to claims, which is absurdly low from a P&C perspective. There have been stricter regulations for P&C for decades. I have no idea how lawmakers can justify that health insurance is so much more laxly regulated when it’s so much more important.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why are all the peasants celebrating the knight who killed that dragon?

- The guys benefitting from the dragon hoard

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

Funny how killing Osama Bin Laden wasn't considered a "murder", but this is...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Keep it in the news, Mainstream Media producers. Keep outing yourselves as sympathizers of the billionaire class. I think this is a prime example of the unequal treatment of lives between the rich and the poor. So, yes, "please proceed, Governor".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

The attempt to manufacture consent is particularly noticeable this time, maybe because, for a change, working class people of all political leanings agree on this one.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Mr Trump said there was going to be painful change. I guess you get what you're peddling whether you want it or not.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

"I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

This is the best take I've seen on this subject by far.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Eat the rich

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Just don't go to McDonald's to do it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

They put the quotes around the wrong word