• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    Exactly

    I’d love going to the doctor to be something that I don’t have to consider financially before I go

    Not to mention the amount of people that would suddenly gain the ability to even go

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      5 months ago

      What gets me is that healthy people = healthy and productive workers. I’m starting to think the ownership class isn’t as smart as they think they are.

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        5 months ago

        wasn’t it amazing that during a pandemic we managed to give vaccines away. A lot of medical care is disease. Might not be a bad idea to keep that stuff contained in general rather than just under special circumstances.

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        5 months ago

        Yes but also consider this: there’s money to be made from those suffering on the brink of death.

        The ownership class sees it as money left on the table that they could have if they keep the money out of the government’s hands.

        Happy and healthy workers are more productive but by ensuring that they suffer a little bit (read as a lot) they can siphon money from those workers into their pockets and away from everyone else.

        It’s so absolutely fucked up but the cruelty is another means of their exploitation.

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        5 months ago

        They don’t think of working class people as people.

        They’re things, abstracted away from empathy.