• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    5 天前

    Looks like he had an expensive lawyer, then. Happens in countries where justice depends on the size of the wallet.

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      5 天前

      Tell me a country, where it doesn’t work that way

      Companies are buying politicians everywhere to get their way - and if an individual has the money as a large company, it’s practically the same

      I just don’t get, how we equate having money somehow with kind of moral integrity - read: law abiding

      Because you can’t get that kind of money, while still be morally integer or law abiding…

      The world is just fucked in that way, and we need to unfuck it.

      • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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        1 天前

        There are few countries where this is done this openly, and the other ones are third world countries.

      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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        5 天前

        I will say this: in the US at least, people work for health care coverage - that’s often garbage but good luck affording even shitty coverage without being beholden to your employer. They stay employed to avoid homelessness.

        The ones setting policy like it that way, it makes it far easier to own people and get them to follow instructions they know are immoral.

        • naeap@sopuli.xyz
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          5 天前

          How do you think it works on other countries?
          I also work for health coverage - but not only for mine and others work for mine as well, if I can’t work because of health issues.
          That’s good insurance works - just that this is a mandatory insurance and everyone who works pays into it

          But I get what you mean, that it’s easier to control employees the US way, because your always on your own…

          • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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            4 天前

            in the UK everyone is guaranteed health care. it’s not conditional on any employment. many countries offer similar care to their citizens and even visitors.

            you never have to sit up at night railing against your boss’s harassment because your kid needs healthcare and you can’t quit.

            • naeap@sopuli.xyz
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              4 天前

              Yeah, I didn’t say otherwise - at least I didn’t try to

              But the people working health care and the buildings, medicine etc needs to be paid for.
              And this happens due to a insurance, every one who is working pays into.
              That way it was always easier for me to explain US Americans how the health care can be free for the individual.

  • Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world
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    5 天前

    She’s 80. Failure of social services and public transit.

    stone her? Strip her children of all their wealth? Ram them with a car? What do you do? Can you even trust her not to drive anymore?

    Just tragedy.