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More like seventy five cents, given Google’s profit margins.
More like seventy five cents, given Google’s profit margins.
Tribal psychology is a helluva drug.
As someone from a country with single-payer: this still seems backwards and barbaric.
When I’m in medical distress, the last thing I want to worry about is what it’ll cost. That’s why I pay taxes to make all this work.
“Price transparency” seems like a way to avoid the core problem.
This isn’t going to stop until the rich are afraid.
In case you’re wondering why fascism is on the rise, it’s seen by the wealthy as a safe way to manage populist rage; get people angry about out- groups and they’ll ignore the rich picking their pockets.
The wealthy don’t think they’re a line in Niemoller’s poem.
It’s not that, it’s more that two raging narcissists can’t occupy the same space at the same time.
You end up with a kind of NPD supercriticality.
I maintain we need to measure social group distance in a unit I’ll call “Niemollers”, after the pastor and poet.
As in “how many Niemollers am I away from '…and there was no one left to speak for me '”
Because the Log Cabin Republicans are probably three Niemollers. He’ll Clarence Thomas is five, maximum.
The wealthy really didn’t like seeing labour getting off its knees during the pandemic and they’re stomping down hard lest we get a taste for it.
Well, I’m 46 and sometimes getting old is hard…
Does it work the other way? Can I follow Threads users without being on threads.net myself?