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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Oh we realize, but it's difficult to stop once it's been ingrained in the culture. Not only that, employers took advantage of that and therefore tipped employees have a much lower minimum wage.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 82 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

It's not the healthcare that bothered me most, although it did.

It's the cognitive dissonance around the unavailability of healthcare in order to avoid anxiety over the fact that a traffic accident can bankrupt you with no relief. Ignoring the risk takes some serious mental gymnastics and basic math failure to get there, but when brought up in this environment - where a TV show about a teacher who has to cook and sell meth to get hospital money is actually a plausible plot where no one actually examines the mercenary care at all and the main character just pays it - it's just a part of their existence.

Not understanding that few other people live like this - cubans don't live like this - is absurd.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Why were Cubans emphasized out of all people?

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