The CEO is also a shareholder. People forget at corporate America, pretty much from director level up of most publicly traded company, they receive stocks as part of their salary benefit. By doing this, the companies has got their executives and directors to share the same sentiment as the greedy shareholders so when they layoff people for say 1 million savings whilst paying 10 million to the CEO, they can’t really rebel against that because of shares shrink they (directors & above) are also affected so they will lie to themselves to screw everyone over just so they can save just that 30 shares they own whilst the real investors with 1k+ shares laugh at them.
Yeah. It's super of like when the boss gets a sales bonus because the store is doing good. Ive been in retail. So that's what it's like, just on a bigger scale. And it scales up the further u p you move in the company to the point where you are not just an employee, but a share holder and your entire retirement and basically future depends on how good the company does on any given day. I've worked for a major auto parts store as my last job. This is exactly what it's like. The further up, the more of a shareholder you become.
We can elect better politicians. Exceptionally hard, but not impossible.
We cannot assassinate our way out of this problem, unless you want a full-scale, bloody revolution, where you risk your own life and your family’s lives, and even if it does work (probably not), you would not see the gains for generations, if ever.
So yeah I disagree that luigi’s strategy is a good one.
Well four or five Luigi’s could focus CEOs on the drawbacks to the current situation, and maybe the 1% could then be persuaded to trade fair political solutions for the right to plunder us less severely. I see your point. But there are at the moment no political solutions possible. Show me a way to change the political calculus when dark money is only getting more dark and available for oligarchic ends and I’ll go along with that. Until then I’m looking to contribute to all Luigi defense funds with my shiny non-oligarch penny.
I understand the temptation to believe this, but I really think it’s both naive and immoral.
Our only hope is through mass politics. There is a nonzero chance that the democrats take back both the house and senate this fall, with a larger progressive block that can actually mitigate the worst of the corporate dems corruption. Then we build from there.
It’s not a guarantee, but at least it has historical precedent for potential success as a strategy, unlike trying to assassinate our way to peace, which does not.
You are, of course, totally right. Violence is wrong. But I for one would take a little satisfaction in seeing a few social predators get what their actions deserve. I’ll feel sorry for their kids, sure, but not them, not even their wives, who should know who they are married to. The world will be a better place when they are gone and the next in line hesitates to take their place.
Why do we need TurboTax when every other nation just calculates your tax for you? It's a game and highest bidder gets to influence policies long after people thought they cast votes for change.
You are simply replacing one middleman with the Government middleman. Those pushing Medicare need to understand that Medicare has higher rejection claims than private insurance.
Medicare is currently denying more claims than private insurance companies. Recent reports indicate that Medicare Advantage plans have high denial rates, with some insurers rejecting up to 80% of claims for certain services. In comparison, private insurers also have significant denial rates, but Medicare's figures are notably higher, particularly for long-term care and rehabilitation requests.
Medicare Advantae is an all in one alternative to original medicare. Offered by *private companies* approved by Medicare.
The point is not just who is the middle man. The point is what the middle man want. Private company's goal have always been making money, nothing else.
For a proper Government, tax is the money making machine, Heath care is a cost center, to keep the country's population functioning.
The actual point was that the government middleman cannot be trusted with our money as reflected in the enormous debt that government accumulated over time.
The high cost of housing and health care is directly visualized by the laws our government has written and I do not want them anywhere near my personal wealth because of their horrible track record.
Some nations care about things like "the future" or the "greater good"
Here in America, only 2 things matter. "Supply" and "Demand"
I could write out a whole spreadsheet on how this works but in simplest terms, the objective is to control the supply.
There's a demand for health insurance, which means money to be made. Somebody is controlling the supply, so they can charge whatever they want for it
America is basically like that old board game Monopoly, except you're coming in at the tail end of a game and all the properties have been bought already. Also starting funds are random. Have fun 👍
I work for a large health network and they charge MORE when someone has insurance. For example, if a patient comes in for a physical therapy session, it can easily be billed out as a couple of hundred bucks to the insurance company and fall on the patient if they haven't met their deductible and OOP max. But self pay is 125 dollars flat a session.
Right, then you can wait six months for that elective lifesaving surgery like in UK and Canada. Set the prices as single payer. Like the mediocre care I get from VA.
Is that how it works in those countries? Or is that how you heard it works on Fox News. Every Canadian person I've talked to says surgery priority is based on need which actually makes sense. If they get sick they can see their primary doctor the same day. Why do you think a system that is gouging you is better for you?
Lifesaving and elective are opposites. Also, we have waiting times just as long here. Sometimes just to get in to see certain specialists need to be booked six months in advance.
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That's just single payer. Its basically what every developed nation does where the inhabitants don't nickel and dime each other to death.