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[blue, speaking from behind a lectern] Our corporation will TRANSFORM healthcare

[purple, celebrating] Awesome! I love startups! New technologies will solve everything!

[blue, now more smug] …by making it more efficient for hospitals to collect debt from their customers

[purple is malding]

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[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I still am, but there is no optimism under a capitalist system that is fundamentally designed to be exploitative. Anything built under this system, regardless of the possibilities, will always wind up being co-opted and controlled by capitalist interests, thus fundamentally turning them into exploitative tools of oppression.