this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2024
1780 points (98.6% liked)

Microblog Memes

5911 readers
2932 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

All the advancements will still most likely help others down the line.

The tech exists now and that's still a big leap forward even if that particular company fucked people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Could we somehow both have the advancements and not fucking people over? ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah pretty much every country except America runs their healthcare that way.

A big advantage of socialised medicine is the system has huge buying power and can enforce things like this when making contracts.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The fucking-people-over part is NOT a necessary part of the tech! You can have tech that gets stably supported with adequate safeguards in place to make sure patients get everything they need to keep them safe and working for the rest of their life--safeguards enforced by government mandates. Those are policy issues that we already know how to solve, we just don't, because we let tech companies do whatever the hell they want.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah most places except America this is what would happen. It's a big advantage of nationalised medicine.