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[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

The whole false scarcity thing is the thing that drives me into Lovecraftian madness. The sheer amount of normalization of the phrase "access to care" drives me up the wall. Or how we have replaced "healthcare" to "insurance" as the goal is just so damn wrong. I'm very lucky/blessed/fortunate to never really have any real need for physical healthcare or mental healthcare, however always deeply troubled by the ceaseless parade of nightmarish stories of people trying to get care. From people who are uninsured to folks who supposedly had "good" insurance, everyone seems to have a terrible time accessing their "access to" their care. I

Capitalists have convinced the liberals of the world that something very much not real is very much real. For the record, you are not crazy for not buying into the "Catastrophe or Ruination" dichotomy they false create. You are in fact cool and normal for proposing a third mystery option of "What if we didn't have to pick between those two?"

Neoliberalism/Late Stage Capitalism/Hellworld is all about buy into this idea of false scarcity when there is in fact abundance were there the political will. The current Media machinery and apparatus does so much of the heavy lifting for these MEGACORPS too.