Re:The Amish health care system
by fock on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:10AM
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also we've thankfully left behind the age of caste systems, where you just were poor, because well, peasants be peasants. Today I don't see any rich people engaging in that kind of (really screw up, if you think about it) "philantrophy" anymore... Especially in America (with Amazon and Walmart-slavery) the attitude is more like: you're poor, because you are not putting enough effort in.
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What's screwed up about philantrophy? And it's still here, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a most prominent example.
The inequality that creates philanthropy shouldn't exist. Bill Gates did not himself earn his fortune.
the one where people somehow think, the status quo is god-given and that it's their godly duty to give alms. And no, Bill Gates is not an example for that - I think it's basically limited to the 3rd world, people in the US are still supposed to get their life together ;).
Since 1980 or so, the caste system is on a return. Not in rhetoric, but in outcome. "Social mobility" is down, down, down in the US.
yeah, I reckon that. But compared to the old caste systems the people on top tend to show even less regard for the ones down (because they are so great and all selfmade!)
Behind the bastards has a good podcast about the lady who mainstreamed adoption. She convinced rich people that they could adopt poor children and they wouldn't be genetically inferior, to be blunt.
She also stole kids and let babies die from lack of care...