Comment on Luxury bones? In *this* economy.
MTK@lemmy.world 1 week ago
To be fair, teeth are fucking expensive. Like almost as bad as buying a house.
My grandma had to spend 100K on her teeth of the last few years of her life, and she had insurance. Insurance companies just don’t really cover teeth because it is expensive and our bodies guarantee that they will start going bad after young adulthood and then really shit the bed towards the last few decades of life.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It’s because the dental industry convinced us that teeth are “purely cosmetic”, and only exist to look pretty in your mouth whie smiling, and you’re responsible for it by buying expensive dental care products, some of which are either hard to get if you live far away from cities (dental floss mainly), or are ultra-minty because they needed to fool chain smokers of the twenties, and if you can’t have your breakfast before you brushing your teeth due to various factors, your breakfast tasting ass is just the “suffering” you have to do for beauty, and at worst some gymbro-brained person will tell you how breakfast was invented by cereal companies (I need breakfast for my meds, or else I’ll develop a stomach ulcer on the long run, sentencing me for eating unseasoned food).
I hope the dental company execs will get their limbs reclassified as something “purely cosmetic” the moment they lose their wealth, and if they either need to sewn back or replacement limbs will be available in the future, they only can get them on massively overinflated prices for their relative costs of treatment/manufacturing, and have to pay the doctor yet another fortune for photoshops of them shaking hands with people, flipping the bird while being angry, kicking the ball into the goalpost in a heated football (“soccer” in imperial units) match, etc.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 days ago
“purely cosmetic”
Dental abscesses and infections related to tooth decay were among the leading causes of death before premodern times.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 days ago
“But you can just get them pulled for much cheaper, and then only eat pulpy food. It’s all just cosmetics, never mind the stigma surrounding missing teeth, or having to eat pulpy food since you can no longer chew. If your workplace has a kitchen, just ask your boss for pulpy foods, I guess he’s kindhearted enough.”
This kind of toxic positivity towards capitalism in the name of “ideological neutrality” permuates the modern health industry, anti-seizure and anti-depressant medication causing the recipient to need more sleep often being sold as “becoming even healthier through more sleep” and similarly just told to ask their boss for a “part-time position” if they need, weight gain is being sold as “a good motivator for healthier lifestyles”, and so on. This causes the general masses to be disillusioned with modern health care, and puts them into the hands of healthcare swindlers like RFK Jr., or even churches. Scientology is just the more openly anti-psychiatry example, but even the catholic church is profitting off of defunded health care and many people, including the politicians, selling priests as an alternative to mental health services.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
So glad I don’t live in the US. Although I fear it’s moving in that direction here too.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 days ago
A lot of developed countries are like that too.