I nominate this NYT opinion piece for shittiest take of 2024!
Saruman, not frodo, was the true ring bearer.
Brett Stephens is here!
When Mom doesn’t understand the vibe. “No, we have working class hero at home.”
“Oh look, Brian Thompson has some characteristics of you poors, you should consider him your hero!”
This article is literally based on feeding class warfare. There’s something people have to understand - “second class” is just the supposedly the right way of doing things so you can eventually live well and make sure your children live well. The amount of assholes in today’s world who are either rich assholes and remain rich assholes who give no shits about the right way of doing things, or poor people who are like them and rise above everything else because they are assholes and embrace it, is far too high. The absolute shamelessness of this article as the second class is being dismantled because it’s just better for rich assholes for everyone to remain poor except the ones willing to become as much of an asshole as them just speaks volumes about the state of American society.
They are deluded. They still think about the American dream as if it wasn’t a nightmare. Yeah, leave all your people behind, let them die or rot in poverty, as long as you make it.
Imagine you can extract 100k in premiums over lifetime of the slave?
Then at year 20 he get cancer… Now if you pay, it will cost 1m aka his premium plus 9 other slaves who won’t get cancer…
So why would you deny and book all that sweet cheese.
Nothing will change until parasites are removed from profit seeking positions and health care system is reformed to do this.
If more dead CEOs are needed, well we got people doing school shootings so hopefully they update targeting algos.
Boardrooms, not classrooms.
This fight will take a generation. Owners are already turning narratige. Left and right politics clowns are starting to derail discussions.
It’s even worse than that, really.
They take those premiums, and what employers pay, and all the co-fees like when you pay a $30 copay on a drug that would cost $5 out of pocket (there are many! but you have to research) and invest them.
They make tons and tons of money on all the premiums. So it isn’t even $100k in, $1mil out. It’s 100k times a thousand in, and that $1mil is peanuts by comparison out.
Coupled with the fact that the $1mil in treatment is all fake cost values made up by the industry, when in reality, it probably would cost 1/10th that, to still turn an operational profit.
Not disagreeing with you either, just pointing out the monetary disparity is insanely worse.
