• Doom@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    OH SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH YOUR “FINITE” RESOURCES BULLSHIT. The DOCTOR recommended the treatment. The only barrier to having more time with their loved one wasn’t knowledge, or skill, or reSoUCEes… It was money, a FAKE thing WE invented. You know what IS a finite resource FUCKING TIME. Our priorities as a society are so absolutely bonkers. We could have given that family more of an actual unrenewable gift that can never be replaced, restored, or generated and instead we STOLE that from them to give more of an invented thing of fictious value to the elites. Elites that have so much of it already they could never conceivable spend it.

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      8 days ago

      OH SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH YOUR “FINITE” RESOURCES BULLSHIT.

      No matter how much you scream, it will still be true. You can’t yell and curse it away.

      Money is finite, even if we made it up. Everyone can’t have everything.

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        8 days ago

        Amazing how a supposedly finite resource can be printed on a whim at the convenience of specific class of people.

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          So there is no reason, why all 300 million people in America shouldn’t get this treatment right now, in case they have cancer? All at once preferably.

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            7 days ago

            If a DOCTOR (key word) diagnosis you with cancer, then YES. Otherwise, no your time would be better spent doing something else. May I suggest a hobby? Perhaps building strawmen?

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        Your argument rests upon the inaccurate assumption that because things are what they are, that it is inevitable that they will stay the same.

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      Counter-theory: nothing got stolen, the insurance already paid a million for other treatments buying him a lot of time, but in the end the cancer won.

      Now we don’t know any of that because the article is slop and doesn’t tell us anything that wouldn’t fit the sob-story narrative.

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        Whose money? Insurance is paid by a pool of people. That makes it a community resource and when a community members gets sick that resource should be allocated to taking care of them. People don’t pay insurance thinking “Gee I sure hope when I need coverage they deny me and direct my funds to the fatheads at the top of my insurance company.”

        And the article being true/false/slop is irrelevant. Most Americans have experience with this fucked up system of ours that’s why it resonates.