The difference is negligible. The widespread opiate crisis in the US isn’t because of street drugs and militant cartels and gangs. It’s because of over prescribing of opiates by doctors overworked in understaffed hospitals, or because it’s the only med insurance will cover. The end result is the same, both are corrupt private organizations that have taken power from their respective governments through flexing violence and money. And if you don’t think major corporations can’t be violent, just ask any number of whistleblowers who are 6 feet under.
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kitnaht@lemmy.world 6 days agoIf you legitimately can’t tell the difference between the two, I don’t think anyone can help you ever understand.
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 6 days ago
DmMacniel@feddit.org 6 days ago
Its okay having your head up the US Exceptionalism Arse. I was just doing a funny re-whataboutism.
SecretSauces@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You’re right. Cartels forceibly take “protection” money from you and leave you alone. If you can’t pay, they might kill you.
US Healthcare wont FORCE you to pay them. But even if you do, you still might die because whatever you’re dying from isn’t covered. Much less blood on their hands.
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 6 days ago
And even though they technically don’t FORCE you, like you said, American society does everything within its power to convince you that you really, REALLY should