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submitted 3 months ago by Bad@jlai.lu to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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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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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

As someone who witnessed the Golden and Silver age of the internet, I have since forever been a techno-optimist, . But these days...

... let's just hope those aliens are real, and will start the culling from the top down.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately anything capable of interstellar travel is beyond anything earth can offer, even as a place to live. The only truly unique things we have are our biosphere and culture, both of which can be sampled covertly.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, but let's hope they take pity on us ~~in the same way we take pity on ants~~ as benevolent gods

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

You have uh.. that's the best summary I've ever seen.

You are absolutely correct.

[–] 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.

[–] GreenSofaBed@feddit.is 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It will DISRUPT the market

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

It's absolutely intentional that tech bros stopped openly using the "move fast and break things" phrase. Sounds more violent and generally objectionable than "disrupt".

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Eh, I’d welcome better payment processes in health care. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve been past due even though I had the money, just cuz the payment portal is a mess.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

I just ignore everyone until I get the final notice. Fuck them they will get my money at the last possible moment.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Bassett in NY did ya one better. They contracted with a debt collection company for all bill processing and the payment portal is a total mess.