Yet another example to add to the “why profit is a shitty motivator” pile. It reenforces the worst parts of the human psyche. We teach kids to share, be kind, and be cooperative but the capitalist society rewards greed, anger, and a complete lack of empathy.
Is that the financial crimes version of an adultier adult?
A quick search turned up this blog post from Decolonial Atlas. Not sure if it was what you were looking for but it might fit the bill anyway.
This, so much this! My wife fought for like 10 years to get her gallbladder removed because nobody believed her. I went with her a couple of times and they’d ask symptoms and she would regularly forget to list important things and I’d remind her. I eventually got her to keep track, it finally got through the fog for a provider that referred her to the right specialist. She’s quite a bit better now.
Second example: I have Celiac disease, I just found out last week. (I was so used to how I felt when eating gluten that I didn’t realize it was happening unless I overate or drank beer). I had always had random little things that would pop up (dermatitis, high liver enzymes, etc). Because I kept track, when I recently had my vertigo attack, I saw some other signs that made me ask for a test.
Long story short, journal EVERYTHING because any little symptom might not make sense in the moment but might be the key to finding the problem and actually fixing it.
Holy shit. I thought getting SSDI in the USA was difficult. My dad had to fight via lawyers for years, as did my mom when she got sick, even though they’d been hard workers for decades. That just sounds like outright, mask off, class warfare. The people making the decisions that lead to these denials should be [REDACTED]
I was literally mid conversation with an online acquaintance Sunday about just this. I wish I’d had this video then, though I sent it to him anyway to explain that what he’s been told is wrong. The funny part is that this doesn’t even account for fully automated manufacturing that is beginning to expand in some key industries in China (see Xiaomi “dark factory”) which will reduce the need for human labor. Imagine getting so automated that in order for your entire country to have a good life, all able bodied people needed to work like one short shift a week. You could spend the remaining hours interacting, incenting new stuff, learning stuff, making art, or just resting and enjoying life.
Next year, that number will be more than 50% but I bet they won’t change the usage of percentages to reflect that 50 families own more than the MAJORITY of the rest of the population, COMBINED. Guillotines are cheap, compost is useful.
Made this change myself a few years ago. Moving to an active job actually works really well for me because it forces me to exercise daily AND I can just listen to theory podcasts all day while working and nobody will care so long as I’m getting my work done. At the cost of a few thousand less per year in income, I gained probably years of increased health long term. Plus, it comes with a pension plan, so if the entire system doesn’t collapse before I retire, I have that to look forward to.
WHAT…is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
I’ve started to understand that if China is doing something that makes me go, “why aren’t they doing the most obvious thing I can think of” then it’s probably answered with any one or more of the following: de-escalation to build up more alliances via mutually beneficial trade (see BRICS), long term self reliance strategies (with the end goal of making western offerings uncompetetive long term), or just not wanting to kick off a global nuclear war via antagonism of the USA