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Re:Bill Godbout, a legend in the S-100 community, died in th... by walrus01 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @06:36PM (#18445917)
from the perspective of a person that lives in a country with a single-payer healthcare system, that covers pretty much everybody, it is amazing to see Americans use GoFundMe for medical bills.

The fact that you can become completely bankrupt by getting cancer or any other "expensive" ailment is just... Ridiculous.

GoFundMe is a symptom of a much larger problem, not the problem itself.

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Re:Bill Godbout, a legend in the S-100 community, died in th... by komali2 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @07:10PM (#18446118)
It's also inherently unfair - if you aren't good at marketing, sorry, you don't get to recover from the disaster as well as your neighbor does.

Let alone room for other issues - English level, technological understanding, hell maybe you're just too ugly to put your face in a GoFundMe video and garner sympathy.

I'm with grandparent, this is boring dystopia shit.

Edit: more thoughts - the amount of "recovery" you get is entirely a popularity contest, and has nothing to do with need or really even the value of property lost. Tick enough arbitrary marketing boxes and you could even profit. It's a remarkably shitty thing.

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