• jimbolauski@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You choosing to forgo medical care, or higher learning is your choice, you still have access to it. You may be one of the bottom 1%, where being a barely literate peasant is an improvement on your life.

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      1 year ago

      “It’S yOuR cHoICe” - yeah, real great fucking choice for us to go into debt for things we shouldn’t be able to. It’s also my choice to vote to change the system, which I’m going to exercise. My parents were able to buy a house that fit their income, when they had kids they had to pay $20 to use the tv in the hospital room but the food was all complimentary, and a bachelor’s degree use to be optional if you wanted to make a good living.

      As for the “barely literate peasant”, you’re a vituperative miserable mound of pond sludge that can go fuck yourself. Also, have a nice day.

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        1 year ago

        I get it, you want other people to pay for your education and medical care. Good news many companies have programs that will pay for advanced degrees, most require your supervisor to approve so you may have to apply yourself.

        Remember your argument is that people were better off as medevil presents, don’t get upset when you are compared to one.

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          I get it, you want other people to pay for your education and medical care. Good news many companies have programs that will pay for advanced degrees, most require your supervisor to approve so you may have to apply yourself.

          How presumptuous and rude of you to put words into my mouth, much like the unsympathetic asshole you appear to be. There’s no entitlement here, just the desire that it be within the same reach as it was to people 20 years ago, 50 years ago, and in between. Prior generations had reasonable access to healthcare, medicine, and higher education from a cost perspective. Thanks to the strength that trade unions had 60 years ago a person could go from high school into many types of businesses and expect to make a livable wage and set aside for retirement.

          You are truly out of touch, ontop of being a presumptuous douchebag that responds with accusations that people are just entitled, much like the boomers who had it far easier than all generations since who find nothing but obstacles where doors were wide open for them.

          No, I’d like to pay for higher education and all my healthcare, but thanks to our current legislative climate we have regulations in place that only favor the top 1% who hoard all the wealth by demanding eternal growth for all businesses at every level, which has created the unsustainable economic situation we have today, and then you have the nerve to accuse people of entitlement.

          We’re done here, welcome to the block list, you sad sack of shit.

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            1 year ago

            Things have cost, the expensive community college, ~5k for a full year, has to pay their teachers. There’s not not some huge profit grab.