• Sunflier@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    With the big money controlling everything, it’d be a cheaper way to go out than bankrupting your estate with a hospital bill and denial of care from insurance.

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    1 day ago

    Late-stage capitalist trolley problem:

    There’s a trolley, but no one is one the tracks. Do you:

    a) Allow the trolley to pass by without incident, and thus rob the medical industry of its paycheck for stitching you back up

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    b) Jump in front of the trolley and get injured, but thus also delay its arrival to its destination and thus rob the trolley company shareholders of profits due to missing customers

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      Late-stage capitalist problem:

      There’s tracks, but trolly service was defunded as it wasn’t profitable. Now everyone spends thousands per year to maintain a car.

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      This problem only works if the user has insurance, and obviously he shouldn’t have that because it could be profit, the obvious answer is to jump on the track to get that profit back to the corporations.

  • Fear_and_loathing@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Is this in reference to ICE and Renee Good, because I think we know what that ICE agent decided? Create a problem so they can pull the trigger.

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    Reminds me of my workplace (I’m the trolley and others are jumping on the tracks)

  • TouchMacaque@lemmy.ca
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    My Belgian step-neighbor did this in Cameroon once and everyone was so mad, they wrote instrumental songs about him for years. They were the most beautiful songs in the world, unfortunately they were lost to time and I never got to hear them.