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Want some so bad but not willing to trade organs for it (startrek.website)
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[–] Cyberwitch_7493@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's kinda like comparing universal healthcare to individual payer for-profit insurance. One rewards everyone as a universal system with consistency (at least in theory) and the other rewards only rich people.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's why they oppose universal healthcare here in the US -- they wan't access to special treatment.

What they don't realize is they can still have Mommy's Super Special Boy(tm) access, since even in a system of universal healthcare, there's still a demand for private practice.

So really, it just boils down to them hating poor people and other marginalized groups

[–] bilboswaggings@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

Also universal healthcare can afford specialized equipment because the amount of people they would service is higher than the profit driven hospital

Rather than the current system of specialized equipment still having to make profit so treatment costs increase

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would argue that a postal service is not structured the same way as an on demand service like uber.

A postal courier who arrives at your door, picks up an important document, and takes it straight to the recipient will cost about the same.

When you write a letter or send a parcel you first take it to a designated pick up point. It is then picked up at an allocated time along with all the other letters and parcels, and at best it is going to arrive the next day having been through a huge sorting routing system at the post depot.

Apples and oranges.

Also fuck uber eats and the gig economy.

[–] Cyberwitch_7493@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Idk, I got a care package in the mail with a cake inside, seems like they can both deliver food lol. 🤷

Also the cake is delicious, and yeah fuck the gig economy.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Did the cake arrive in half an hour? I mean, would they be able to deliver a hot meal because you suddenly decided you couldn't be bothered to cook that evening.