Mehmet Oz, widely recognized as television’s “Dr. Oz” and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head Medicare and Medicaid, has sparked controversy over resurfaced remarks from a 2013 speech, where he addressed the balance between personal and governmental responsibility for the uninsured.Dr. Oz...
Any job that gets between a patient and the care they need is a job that needs to die.
No doubt. I’m an antiwork radical and think nobody should have a job. But the one thing both political parties and the public seem to agree on is “more jobs” so anyone who says “less jobs” isn’t going to get elected.
And what will you do with all these unemployed people?
Checkmate, guys. We can’t endanger some jobs in order to help everyone. Sorry. Guess we’ll just keep doing this failure of a system that keeps a few rich from the rest of us struggling.
No answer huh? I’ll send a million beggars to your doorstep. Jesus Christ you people are children. Can we actually talk about how this works?!
I’m sorry, I actually took your message as the typical shutdown response aka “but my jobs” as a reaction to any change. For example when Clinton came to WV coal miners offering a gateway to alternatives and was told coal jobs or nothing. Granted it was campaigning, but the mindset of resistance to change is very strong in an established community or industry.
To answer you more seriously (which was hidden in my first reply), some jobs have to disappear when there are major changes. But others can open up as well, and many of them will have some commonality. I guarantee there is no plan of transition for these same companies when there are mergers or bankruptcies, so what do those people do in those cases? They find a comparable job. I thought our economy was doing great as far as employment and opportunity, this shouldn’t be a big deal if all that is true (I think it’s a lot of smoke and mirrors, but it doesn’t change the point).
Change hurts people, there’s no denying that. But so does stagnation, and I think without change more people get hurt while others profit. That does need to change.
Outlining and discussion of what needs to happen is difficult in social media. Few have the time or knowledge to do a proper debate and rebuttal, cite sources, and follow the many chains that develop. But it’s interesting that we all do seem to acknowledge that what we have sucks, and something needs to happen.
Nope. Obviously, pointing out the reality of the situation and asking to discuss possible ways to overcome the very real and very difficult barriers the capitalists have erected means you actually secretly agree that those barriers should be in place and therefore think we should do nothing instead.
I say this as a lefty AuDHDer: the amount of neurodivergent black-white thinking in leftist communities is extremely concerning. Kind of comes with the territory, probably, given that authoritarians want us dead, but it can create some serious infighting. It should not be controversial to acknowledge the fact that in our current climate, single payer is almost impossible thanks to the opposition from the capitalists.
Do not question comrade! That’s the liberal social media vibe. You have to carefully couch your statements or get burned down for asking.