The plutocrats oppose universal health care for two reasons. Their primary motivation in life is to maximize their wealth, typically achieved by profiting at the expense of others. The single payer system would constrain opportunity for profit making. Secondly, they are viscerally opposed to paying taxes, or funding any kind of socialize…
The plutocrats oppose universal health care for two reasons. Their primary motivation in life is to maximize their wealth, typically achieved by profiting at the expense of others. The single payer system would constrain opportunity for profit making. Secondly, they are viscerally opposed to paying taxes, or funding any kind of socialized benefits. You don’t get uber-rich by caring for others. Quite the opposite.
Wealth maximization has been a dangerous trend for decades. As companies systematically engineered out non-essential capacity and expenses the obvious result has been fragile supply chains and employment. What I noticed in my own experience is that our pensions were replaced by 401K plans with institutional investment funds. These funds have no other reason to exist than wealth maximization. The financial services sector has taken over an ever larger part of the economy.
Ultimately we need satisfaction in meeting human needs (including our own) to replace wealth maximization as the primary human motivation and organizing principle. There's enough for everyone. A truly wealthy nation would be everyone having enough and a little more to share with others.
There are still people in this country who regard caring for others as having far more value than getting uber-rich. They are perhaps a solid number that are slightly hidden in our glorious Gilded Age when those at the top assure the rest of us that the goal of all life is to acquire monetary wealth by any means fair or foul. The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco recently hosted an interview with two authors (Mark Bowden & Matthew Teague) whose book (Inside Trump's Attempted Election Steal) studied and interviewed 60-odd election workers who actually helped run the 2020 election. What they discovered was that election workers (generally older Americans who believed in the system and thought they were performing their civic duty, many Republicans) followed the procedures to the letter and took pride in doing their duty. They ended up threatened and harassed by those who bought into the steal but the amazing thing was that these people generally told the authors that they would (will) turn out again. The system worked and the election was valid because the people in the trenches did their jobs. I know first hand because, for several years, I was one such worker....as was my father before me.
The plutocrats oppose universal health care for two reasons. Their primary motivation in life is to maximize their wealth, typically achieved by profiting at the expense of others. The single payer system would constrain opportunity for profit making. Secondly, they are viscerally opposed to paying taxes, or funding any kind of socialized benefits. You don’t get uber-rich by caring for others. Quite the opposite.
Wealth maximization has been a dangerous trend for decades. As companies systematically engineered out non-essential capacity and expenses the obvious result has been fragile supply chains and employment. What I noticed in my own experience is that our pensions were replaced by 401K plans with institutional investment funds. These funds have no other reason to exist than wealth maximization. The financial services sector has taken over an ever larger part of the economy.
Ultimately we need satisfaction in meeting human needs (including our own) to replace wealth maximization as the primary human motivation and organizing principle. There's enough for everyone. A truly wealthy nation would be everyone having enough and a little more to share with others.
There are still people in this country who regard caring for others as having far more value than getting uber-rich. They are perhaps a solid number that are slightly hidden in our glorious Gilded Age when those at the top assure the rest of us that the goal of all life is to acquire monetary wealth by any means fair or foul. The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco recently hosted an interview with two authors (Mark Bowden & Matthew Teague) whose book (Inside Trump's Attempted Election Steal) studied and interviewed 60-odd election workers who actually helped run the 2020 election. What they discovered was that election workers (generally older Americans who believed in the system and thought they were performing their civic duty, many Republicans) followed the procedures to the letter and took pride in doing their duty. They ended up threatened and harassed by those who bought into the steal but the amazing thing was that these people generally told the authors that they would (will) turn out again. The system worked and the election was valid because the people in the trenches did their jobs. I know first hand because, for several years, I was one such worker....as was my father before me.