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[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Corporations wont let us have Medicare for All - why? Why do they ALL lobby so hard against it? It would make their costs cheaper, right? They wouldn't have to pay for our health insurance. Plus we could get medicines so we can be at work more instead of home sick or spreading sickness at work. So it must not be cheaper in some way for them to have Medicare for All - right? Why do they think it would be more expensive for THEM if we all had public health care?

Because that would detect cancer (and toxins) and allow us to class action sue companies for them. Can't sue if it was never detected. Thats why they find carcinogens and lead in kids’ products so much - their products dont have more lead in them, but kids all can be on Medicaid and that catches it. Flint, MI, water poisoning was detected by a kid on Medicaid.

They don't want us to all have healthcare because that is public science and it will absolutely detect what theyve been lying and poisoning us with. It would probably destroy all the big companies like Nestle, Johnson&Johnson, Colgate, etc...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago

Public healthcare also removes one of the few leashes they have on workers to keep them in line. My Father in law used to work at a local retail chain in my area, and the pay was straight dogshit, but the health insurance was phenomenal. It kept many workers from leaving for better paying jobs.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Regulations, and safety laws, and labor laws are WRITTEN IN BLOOD. People have literally died for every regulation we have on the books, it’s WHY the laws were written

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

And lawsuits

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And if we're all killed, who will the big companies get money from?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

They will market safe food as a new product and charge you more for food that wont kill you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

Corporations wont let us have Medicare for All - why? Why do they ALL lobby so hard against it? It would make their costs cheaper, right? They wouldn’t have to pay for our health insurance. Plus we could get medicines so we can be at work more instead of home sick or spreading sickness at work. So it must not be cheaper in some way for them to have Medicare for All - right? Why do they think it would be more expensive for THEM if we all had public health care?

Because that would detect cancer (and toxins) and allow us to class action sue companies for them. Can’t sue if it was never detected. Thats why they find carcinogens and lead in kids’ products so much - their products dont have more lead in them, but kids all can be on Medicaid and that catches it. Flint, MI, water poisoning was detected by a kid on Medicaid.

They don’t want us to all have healthcare because that is public science and it will absolutely detect what theyve been lying and poisoning us with. It would probably destroy all the big companies like Nestle, Johnson&Johnson, Colgate, etc…

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

One of the weirdest aspects of America is that we think people whose job is making money for shareholders should have more power than the public servants we, the public, hire to work for us.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think thats just a subset of the whole "Government should be run like a business" mindset.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a hardline belief that any business is automatically more efficient than government because if it weren't it would die from competition, period, end of story. The real equation is that companies are as inefficient as they can afford to be, and the bigger ones can afford plenty. In one of my jobs my manager gave me maybe 2 or 3 weeks of actual work to do in 6 months. In another my team was told to hold off starting a project because there was a change of plan and they didn't know exactly what they wanted. So we just screwed around for a couple months. I won't say what company but in both cases it rhymed with Bicrosoft.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Rivers full of industrial waste used to catch on fire, bosses used to lock workers in and let them die in fires(triangle shirtwaist fire),school was only for the wealthy, kids used to work, companies used to poison people en masse and deny it with no consequences(radium girls) work was 12 hours a day 7 days a week(people literally died to change this and trump people voted for this to happen again

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

I'll never forget this one guy I know complaining about government regulations. Hes unemployed.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most US foods produced under their 'regulations' are forbidden in EU.
And for good reason.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Now it'll be 10x worse. Just don't eat here and don't buy food from USA. I say this as an American. We are fucked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

most regulations exist because corporations suck.

Some exist simply to screw people over or charge them money for something they shouldn't have in the first place.

See: Regulations around building structures on private property.

Maybe I'm alone in this one but I don't think I should need to get the cities approval or pay them a licensing fee to build a shed or a tree house in private property. They can lick my sweaty taint for all I care.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Except when that shed catches a fire and that spreads to your neighbour. Or a part of your tree house breaks off and by freak accident hits neighbour on the other side of fence.

Laws are not written for perfect scenario. Laws are written to prevent the bad scenarios.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (7 children)

See: Regulations around building structures on private property.

Even those are based on people doing it wrong in the past and endangering themselves and others.

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