Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Healthcare and Education are Luxuries of the Rich
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Healthcare and Education are Luxuries of the Rich
The U.S. is the richest nation in the history of the world, but somehow can’t supply its citizens with things that other nations take for granted.
Why is this?
The largest portion of the problem is the fact that industries have risen up to profit off of these markets, and those are multifaceted.
There are the pharma companies who have been synergized by various food additives that the FDA approves at least for a time until public pressure makes them overturn their GRAS (generally recognized as safe) seal of approval ex. Fen-Phen, Vioxx, Opioids, Trans Fats, etc.
Big money rears its ugly head again, as I’ve mentioned in other articles you can see how big money pulls all the levers of Washington, and this topic is no different.
It’s actually more profitable for you to stay unhealthy, you’ll keep buying meds to bring down your blood sugar, high cholesterol, and blood pressure. Plus you’ll purchase diet pills or weight loss surgery when you start getting overweight due to all of the unhealthy food that is easily accessible to you, and even made to be addictive! So everyone profits, except you of course.
Plus when you need that major surgery eventually, or end up in ICU since you never had that blood pressure under control properly, they’ll bill you an estimate of $10,000 a day.
This is the reason that some food additives that are legal in the U.S. are fully banned in the EU and Japan for example, because they don’t want added stress on their systems due to shitty food. But in the U.S. both industries can profit!
Then there’s, of course, the largest problem, the Insurance industry, these guys have become the middleman for everything that relates to your health, and guess what, they’re not looking out for your best interests.
Their main purpose is just to try to deny as many claims as possible to make sure to keep you as low cost as possible for them, that’s it. A sick needing to actually use their insurance isn’t a profitable venture for them.
In the past, they could just drop you if you cost them more than say 100k USD, but thanks to the Affordable Care Act they no longer can do that. The issue with the ACA is that it has become a huge handout of taxpayer money to the insurance industry, and the deductibles now are outrageous. So you still have to cover in most cases tens of thousands before it even does shit.
Then there’s education. Most countries offer this free or very affordable, with some countries offering it free as long as you have the grades to get in, and better yet some even offering money to the students while they attend…which makes sense if you want to invest in the future of your citizenry.
But in the U.S. we instead jacked the prices up to where either you need to be born into a family who can just pay your way, have a scholarship which normally requires you to maintain a certain number of hours in various courses so it hampers your studies in other things, join the military and hope you survive both physically and mentally, or take out loans that will haunt you the rest of your life most likely.
Student loans are uniquely fucked in the U.S., they build interest like any other loan, but at the end of each year, they capitalize on the interest, rolling it into the principal so it’ll build more interest next year! Then if you ever fall behind they can go into default and seize your personal financial accounts, and want to know the kicker?! You can’t file bankruptcy, and they don’t fall off your record after 7 years like a foreclosure or bankruptcy would.
They are tied to you for life, there are people in the U.S. who have their fucking social security garnished by student loan companies.
Why do we allow this shit to go on?
Well on one hand we have an uneducated part of the populace who just don’t like college-educated liberals basically, this group has embraced their ignorance and are proud of it, anti-intellectuals. They also hate immigrants, you know the people who come into the country who have likely been educated outside of the country and then got contracts to work in the U.S.
So these folk don’t want to go to college themselves to have these jobs and also want to piss all over anyone who would decide to go to college to have these jobs. At the same time, they don’t want them done by people who aren’t from the U.S..….so that all makes perfect sense…
These are the same ones who were against student loan forgiveness, yet they’re fine with banks and huge corporations getting bailed out, and writing a blank check to the Pentagon every year.
The system allows these giant corporations and banks to wring us dry, and then uses our taxpayer money to bail them out when they make a bad investment, where’s your bailout when finances go south?
During the pandemic, we saw businesses with record profits yet so many mom-and-pop businesses went belly up. We saw milk being dumped down drains while 13 million children in the U.S. have food insecurity.
This just screams of the same injustices that were talked about in The Grapes of Wrath, and how inefficient the current system is at least at meeting the needs of the citizenry, but it never really was set up to do that, was it?
As a species, we can produce enough food to feed the whole world. Naysayers will claim it’s a logistical issue. Meanwhile, the U.S. alone spends around 877bn a year as of 2022 on an incredibly wasteful military that no politician has the balls to question, and as U.S. citizens we’ve been taught it’s a sin to say anything against as well.
The U.S. spends more than the next 10 nations combined, the next highest is China at 282bn, and the third is Russia at 86.4, but guess what the U.S. spends 100bn on its police force, making it the third largest military budget if it had it’s own nation. Could some of that money be used for logistics? Who is the big bad that we’re really worried about? Do we really need to spend so much on tools to destroy all of mankind while we could be working towards eliminating deaths from famine?
In the U.S. there is an unlimited number of funds to bail out the super-wealthy and fund the military and police. Why? Because they are the enforcer arm of the capital that runs everything, they keep you and the poor of the world in line so that your rulers can keep exploiting you.
Anytime major healthcare, education reform, or housing reform are brought up all the politicians ask “How do we pay for it?” or just scream “communism/socialism”, but this question is never brought up with military spending or bailing out Wall Street, the banks, the housing market, huge corporations.
This is the reason that the country is in decline, we’re taught that greed is good, programs that help the masses are evil “communism”, and that you should pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
As a society, we need to provide solid footing for future generations, for them to be able to go further than us. Instead, the U.S. is a free-for-all to see who can loot the most first.
They’ve done everything they can to strip the house bare, they’ve ripped out the walls and taken the copper wiring and are questioning us on why we can’t turn on a light to see how to get through.
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