I don't know what happens next, but something's got to give. :solidarity:
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the moment that we started treating patients like customers is the moment the healthcare system started collapsing
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Both /r/nursing and /r/teachers have become fully radicalized at this point :chefs-kiss:
it's so fucked up. I recently started working at a langauge school, that literally is meant to be free classes for poor people who want to learn english, and our official terminology for them is "customers" like what the fuck!? they 1) aren't paying 2) are real fucking people. students. why do we need to dehumanize them and monetize them like that?!?!?!?!
so there was a post by someone else on here that was predicting the end of the US, and I said that their prediction was optimistic. I don't think it's a bad post, I have nothing against that poster and I get why there was confusion why I thought the country collapsing in 5 years was a real glass half full moment. Forgive me for what I'm about to say but that reddit post sums it up perfectly. If you're just gonna fucking croak in hospitals now, but you're still expected to go to work, bring on the collapse ASAP. Rip this band-aid off, trying to sustain this any longer is immoral.
Every minute the US exists causes untold human suffering on the imperial periphery. As fucked up as it is the collapse of the US would be a net good for the world. Y'all can revoke my anarchist card or w/e but I wholeheartedly believe that taking the global hierarchy down a notch by way of the US imploding is a positive thing regardless of whatever state is next in line for global hegemony.
Nothing happens next. Until maybe people start suing hospitals en masse for their loved ones dying easily preventable deaths due to insufficient supplies and unsafe staffing ratios. It’s medical malpractice. That could lead to line go down, at which point our government would take action, probably by subsidizing the healthcare industry with absolutely no return to the people, or by providing hospitals with legal immunity.
