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Re:Whole Foods to cut health-care benefits for 1,900 part-ti... by krapp on Friday September 13, 2019 @11:53AM (#20963211)
>Why not just let people work, have a life, and contribute to society, rather than demanding they remain poor for the grave sin of having medical issues.

Because the US is a capitalist society which has an almost pathological revulsion for socialism and welfare in any form, where poverty is simply the result of you being too lazy to bootstrap yourself into wealth, and where healthcare isn't a right, but a privilege.

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Re:Whole Foods to cut health-care benefits for 1,900 part-ti... by perl4ever on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:58PM (#20967871)
Capitalism is just a word and has no opinions nor most of the implications people claim.

The problem is more that a lot of people are deeply convinced of something like social Darwinism, that if you are sick you must be inferior, and a leech, and can't believe that there is a benefit to society in assisting.

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