Tag: American Healthcare System
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The Difference Between Icing And Cake
Icing: “Both sides have decent people on them!” Cake: one side is racist, violent and reactionary, the other isn’t. The whole trick to getting propaganda to work is convincing as many people as possible that icing is what matters. If the outside is pretty, sparkly and distracting enough, hopefully no one will notice that the…
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Capitalism Doesn’t Have To Crush People — Only CRONY Capitalism Does That
Like all ideas, capitalism itself is neither good nor bad. It’s just an idea — a foundational notion of how a society might live, using capital as a motivator for innovation. Capitalism, by its nature, looks to the future. It depends on tomorrow being better than today — it needs new ideas, new inventions, new…
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We’re ALL Greedy In One Way Or Another; Our Obligation — Keep “Our” Greed In Check
[NOTE: This blog post is being shared with our sister site “The Faitheism Project“] Not everyone is greedy for money. Some people are greedy for love and couldn’t care less about money. Some of us are greedy for credit. We’ll take ownership of work and labor that we did not do. Some are greedy for…
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You CANNOT Have Profit Incentive At The Core Of A Health CARE System
Some ideas are so stupid, you have to marvel how they don’t die at their inception. Example — having profit incentive inside a health care system. Of course we want people to “make money” doing their jobs in a health care system. That’s not the same thing however as having corporations step in as gatekeepers…