Personally, I think that having an actual system for health care, as opposed to a snakepit of competing corporations, would have one priceless advantage: it would make it infinitely more difficult for those who delude themselves into thinking that ungoverned societies and institutions produce anything but anarchy and suffering to damage the orderly process, since corruption would naturally serve as a lightning rod for such attitudes and ground them out beneficially.
Corporate operations - which is what we have, and which we are not otherwise going to be able to get rid of - directly and strongly reward people for disassociating actions taken in the corporate name from their personal morality and responsibility. Corporate operations rarely look beyond the next quarter, and if they do, only to the next year. Health care, pensions, water without toxic waste in it, any kind of accountability, - all of them come right out of the almighty fucking bottom line, and maybe one in a hundred companies would provide them without a Federal fucking gun to their head and those'd be lucky to survive the short term because those truly insane 'choices' are good for that, god help us all.
Damn straight I'll trust a bureaucrat over that. No, his decisions aren't going to be perfect, and no, they're probably not going to be very efficient.
But fuck, man, anyone who expects anything perfect out of human beings is a loon, and compared to umpty-bazillion automobiles and ten times as many tons of trash wasted every day, a few paper pushers aren't even worth noticing.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
Corporate operations - which is what we have, and which we are not otherwise going to be able to get rid of - directly and strongly reward people for disassociating actions taken in the corporate name from their personal morality and responsibility. Corporate operations rarely look beyond the next quarter, and if they do, only to the next year. Health care, pensions, water without toxic waste in it, any kind of accountability, - all of them come right out of the almighty fucking bottom line, and maybe one in a hundred companies would provide them without a Federal fucking gun to their head and those'd be lucky to survive the short term because those truly insane 'choices' are good for that, god help us all.
Damn straight I'll trust a bureaucrat over that. No, his decisions aren't going to be perfect, and no, they're probably not going to be very efficient.
But fuck, man, anyone who expects anything perfect out of human beings is a loon, and compared to umpty-bazillion automobiles and ten times as many tons of trash wasted every day, a few paper pushers aren't even worth noticing.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."