Saruman, not frodo, was the true ring bearer.
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Brett Stephens is here!
Brett Stephens moment
When Mom doesn't understand the vibe. "No, we have working class hero at home."
"Oh look, Brian Thompson has some characteristics of you poors, you should consider him your hero!"
This article is literally based on feeding class warfare. There's something people have to understand - "second class" is just the supposedly the right way of doing things so you can eventually live well and make sure your children live well. The amount of assholes in today's world who are either rich assholes and remain rich assholes who give no shits about the right way of doing things, or poor people who are like them and rise above everything else because they are assholes and embrace it, is far too high. The absolute shamelessness of this article as the second class is being dismantled because it's just better for rich assholes for everyone to remain poor except the ones willing to become as much of an asshole as them just speaks volumes about the state of American society.
They are deluded. They still think about the American dream as if it wasn't a nightmare. Yeah, leave all your people behind, let them die or rot in poverty, as long as you make it.
Imagine you can extract 100k in premiums over lifetime of the slave?
Then at year 20 he get cancer... Now if you pay, it will cost 1m aka his premium plus 9 other slaves who won't get cancer...
So why would you deny and book all that sweet cheese.
Nothing will change until parasites are removed from profit seeking positions and health care system is reformed to do this.
If more dead CEOs are needed, well we got people doing school shootings so hopefully they update targeting algos.
Boardrooms, not classrooms.
This fight will take a generation. Owners are already turning narratige. Left and right politics clowns are starting to derail discussions.
It's even worse than that, really.
They take those premiums, and what employers pay, and all the co-fees like when you pay a $30 copay on a drug that would cost $5 out of pocket (there are many! but you have to research) and invest them.
They make tons and tons of money on all the premiums. So it isn't even $100k in, $1mil out. It's 100k times a thousand in, and that $1mil is peanuts by comparison out.
Coupled with the fact that the $1mil in treatment is all fake cost values made up by the industry, when in reality, it probably would cost 1/10th that, to still turn an operational profit.
Not disagreeing with you either, just pointing out the monetary disparity is insanely worse.
No sir
No industry is perfect
No....
— nor is any health care model
True, true, but this is like talking about Jeffrey Epstein and saying "we all like to have sex sometimes"
— and insurance companies make terrible calls all the time in the interest of cost savings. But the idea that those companies represent a unique evil in American life is divorced from the experience of most of their customers.
Nope. Very very incorrect. American healthcare ranks near the top of the most expensive and most obstructive in the world.
I love this comment so much, that I upvoted, saved, and commented on it.
Bravo, good human, you helped to restore a bit of faith in humanity in me.
Thank you very much. Have a great rest of the weekend.
I agree.
And most would be 50.1%.
Why would we give them a passing grade for getting a 50% ?
Are we just supposed to forget the rest because of "most" ?
Seems that when we let most CEOs live they still cry foul.
Bret Stephens sucks.
The earth will be fine. It’s us who will be fucked.
Bro you were my earth....
bro
Does print media have the equivalent of the Razzies?
If they do, this article will be in the running.
The shit take award, shaped like a polished turd
Pretty weird to see this furor over which one of the two is the goliath and the david, corporate media running interference for the owners club as usual smh.
These guys don't get it, maybe on purpose. What makes one "working class" is having to work to live, not being poor. Or, in this case, being just an injury away from losing it all.
The middle class is a myth.
Why post this at all?
It won't work, so money?
Thompson "grew up in a working-class family in Jewell, Iowa"
A class traitor, then.
Every single gang banger who raps about making money, society be screwed, is this guy. It is the very manifestation of the status quo, not working as a society but as someone who milks it and feeds the infighting. Much like the writer of this New York Times opinion piece.
Someone needs to get Bret Stephens a stepladder so he can climb down from being so far up his own asshole
nah, he's far enough in just give him a light nudge and he'll come out his own mouth
lol, y'all really letting Bret Stephens rile you up again? He does know how to push buttons.
The Onion really needs to take that headline and run with it in their special way.
Like just printing it as is?
Whoever said the onion's job is getting harder because reality is catching up to them on being satirical is so, so correct.
This is such a bad editorial it isn't just the worst one of the year, it's on the short list for worst oped of the century. Right up there with the guy who said that we should replace libraries with Amazon stores.
All that mental acrobatics. If only people would put that mental capacity to actual good use rather than for asswiping
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