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Let’s start protecting people instead of profits

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨sanitation@lemmy.today⁩ to ⁨workreform@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What about all the unions who fought for healthcare?

    -My dad, justifying voting for Hillary again Biden in the primaries.

    Every election it was “yes, the left have policy that would directly benefit us, but the moderates won’t vote for that.”

    Well except when he voted Bush thinking he would get lower taxes.

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    • moustachio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “Moderates” is always such a silly term to me. They’re not actually moderate; their beliefs are corporate extremism.

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      • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Its not even a real thing. There is no contingent of voters who will vote for “means-tested subsidies to buy health insurance from 1 of 50 marketplaces based on what your family’s expected healthcare needs are and employer contribution”, but won’t vote for free healthcare. There is no “help Israel do only a little genocide” vote.

        But every time, cable news would dupe the poor man into voting for what some imaginary moderate wanted instead of policy that materially benefits everyone.

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  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Insurance should have never been an “industry”

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So literally no downsides is what you are saying?

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Abolition hurt the cotton and sugar industries, and yes, the slaving industry. There’s even a song about it.

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  • theacharnian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes, and?

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    forget to add all these culminate into, hurts political parties as a wedge issue/single issue.

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  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is the evil brilliance of Conservative marketing. The American working classes have been brainwashed to think what’s good for Jeffy and Zucky and Donnie is what’s good for them.

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  • VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I literally had a bunch of my posts removed for saying this same thing

    Your problem isn’t capitalism per-say, it’s a government that supports corporations over you

    Doesn’t matter what system you technically have, if the government cares more about businesses than they do you, you’re fucked

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    • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      checks notes

      We are fucked.

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  • Aeri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Had the insurance industry but one throat I would slit it.

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    • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And then deny them the medical care!

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      • Aeri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Sorry being stabbed is a pre-existing condition.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Parable of the broken window

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  • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I want nothing more than to hurt the industy and take jobs from those who perpetuate it.

    Introduce UBI at the same time.

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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    • blank * industry is a threat to all life on this planet.
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  • plyth@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is all possible without asking Trump.

    All the people who want this: Pick one city to move to. Then build the housing with solar cells, public transport and a hospital.

    If banks don’t finance this, have a lottery. One half has to stay and make money, the other half moves and builds the city. Once the city is profitable, the other half moves there, too.

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    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wow I never realized it was so easy, thanks

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      • plyth@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Where do you see the problems? I think the biggest obstacle is finding the people. Once that’s solved everything else will be solved by the people who want to live in such a city.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      or make new banks and finance it yourself through the new institutions

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We’re basically headed toward a dystopic authoritarian oligarchy with huge disparity. It’s gonna look like all those fictional dystopias portrayed in Elysium or Neuromancer but without all the cool tech. Yeah, we should have these social programs for people…but unless we crush the oligarchy they’ll create continuous pressure to make sure these social programs are as shitty as possible and be functionally the caricature of socialism the right wing uses for its propaganda. They won’t stop bleeding the people for more. But the thing is, if we get rid of the oligarchy we’ll not need such a huge social safety net*.

    *we should have a good one anyway, but it shouldn’t be a response to the disparity created by billionaires, we should just have one by default.

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  • Doom@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ain’t this a free market? Whatever happened to that idea

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And all those industries are filled with people who need those things, just like everybody else. They want them, too

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  • EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    OhNoAnyway.jpg

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  • pedz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s not even simply hurting the auto industry. People are weirdly attached to their mobile living rooms.

    Public transportation? OuR CoUnTrY Is ToO BiG FoR ThAt AnD iT SuCkS. It’s FoR PoOr PeOPlE AnD ThoSe WiTh DUI. We NeEd ChEapEr GaS11!!!1

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Mobile death machines.

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