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  • Actual health insurance is literally illegal in the USA. It’s all some sort of partially pre-paid health subscription crap that you get punished for not buying. Every time the government steps in the help they make it worse, even as far back as WW2 with “salary caps” leading to extra non-monetary incentives, like medical insurance, company car, etc. Then the government gives business tax breaks to provide insurance making it more expensive for an individual to buy so now your health is tied to your work. Then they help by… etc. etc. etc.
















  • The first thing I do is try to stop and identify what I’m angry about or frustrated with.

    Then I check to see if it’s something I can control, and if it’s not then I just accept it. I might not like it, but I accept that it’s the way things are.

    For example I (used to) get angry driving. What I was angry with were bad drivers.

    Is it reasonable to expect to drive and not run into bad drivers? No, they’re out there and there’s nothing you can do a bout it.

    What I can do about it is change my reaction. Instead of raging at bad drivers I simply shake my head and continue about my day.

    Think of it like you’re holding a hulu-hoop. Inside that hulu-hoop are things you can change. Outside the hula-hoop are things you can’t change. Getting mad at things you can’t change isn’t helpful, so concentrate on the things you can control, including your reaction.


  • MrMonkey@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhy are folks so anti-capitalist?
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    edit: You know down voting something doesn’t make it untrue? This is true whether you like it or not.

    Every time I ask for “capitalism” problems I get answers about what the government does.

    “too big to fail”? Government bailouts.

    “antitrust”? Government granted monopolies and making the laws so that barriers to entry are too big.

    “police shootings” Government gang.

    “inflation”? Government monetary policy.

    “colonization”? Government expansion

    “not enough social programs”? Government policy.

    Then you’ve got the sub-70s who go on about “exploitation” which is rooted entirely in fiction.

    Life requires work. All life everywhere. Humans aren’t exempt from this; demanding that others do all your work and provide for you or free isn’t going to work.

    Some of these people would complain that they have to chew their own food.

    People forget that capitalism has lifted literally billions of people out of poverty, it’s advanced our technology to where it’s basically magic. It increased the amount of food we can grow with fewer people allowing people to move past subsistence farming (which many socialist countries reverted to).

    Capitalism uses people greed to provide better, cheaper, faster versions of things…

    Then the government gets involved and instead of blaming the government they’re told to blame capitalism, so they do.