Don’t forget even if you are fully employed, your corporation is stealing 99% of the value of the labor you produced! We are getting robbed blind — LEGALLY! Yay Uhhmerkkkuh!
I worked 6 years making plastic parts, airplane interior panels and medical/dental industry. Sometimes setting up the thermoforming machines and 5-axis CNC machines we would designate initial parts as scrap because they do not meet quality standards.
Anywho, company posted numbers trying to show workers "company waste" because 2-3% of parts were scrapped added up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. So I did the math that the good parts we produce added up to around $10-20 Million (Per Month).
I was making a couple dollars over minimum wage, while the owner, owner's daughter, my manager and my managers son and nephew were all making more money in a manufacturing industry only I went to college for...
Our company owner worked hard for that money, like deciding whether to drive his sports car or fully loaded limited edition truck to work...
At one of our quarterly meetings they told us how much our building had made that quarter(185 million) and the amount we bitched throughout that entire day made them never tell us how much we made again
Americans keep voting for this. Obama tried to improve things and got called a death panel socialist for what realistically only tweaked things around the edges.
If the 60th vote in the Senate wasn't Joe Lieberman, Americans might have a public option. This is entirely the fault of Americans who have been voting Republican or not voting for decades.
It’s not one thing or person to blame, it’s a combination of normalized deviance, over abundance and necessity of money in politics, and a lack of government regulation. Yes I said the R word, and that doesn’t mean they get their mitts in all of our dealings of daily life, it means they need to hold people accountable when they fuck up or enforce rules already on the books.
Bro. After Epstein, I’m so fucking jaded. The entire system is corrupted and needs flushing. At least Trump pulled the curtain back more so we could clearly see. Now, folks need to wake the fuck up from their brainwashings and start holding these fucks accountable. We need to stop with the lessor of two evils thing also, that’s part of the normalized deviance. “Well he’s morally reprehensible but I’d rather red than blue.” Nah, fuck that.
The study said that the cause was driven by drug overdoses and obesity (essentially). That's just slow suicide. Our health insurance system is garbage, but it's not the main cause issue.
And, you know, the opioid scandal that was a direct result of failures in government regulation of healthcare companies.
There's a reason the opioid crisis only became as large as it did in the US compared to many other highly-developed countries. It wasn't a coincidence, and even though there have been improvements, the US is still suffering the consequences from that corruption of the FDA and lawmakers today.
True, also the lack of genetic screening for hereditary diseases, and this blind sort of reliance on the healthcare system to fix anything and everything, just doesn't play out. If you have a kind of epidemic 4 generations deep of congenital heart disease killing people in their 40s-50, type 1 diabetes, autism spectrum diseases... Maybe do NOT have kids with someone whose family has the exact same fucking defects. lol!
You may also need to relocate to a region that will allow you have have sort of "free range kids" without some asshole calling the cops because they saw half a dozen kids hanging out at the park unsupervised. This will tend to help break up the sedentary lifestyle of kids just sitting around cooped up, eating junk food all day, and playing video games.
A Lancet Public Health study estimated that about 27% of U.S. healthcare spending, roughly $730 billion, was attributable to modifiable risk factors like obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, poor diet and smoking.
Adherence to recommended lifestyle changes is pretty low. A recent meta-analysis of people with hypertension found only 27% overall adherence to lifestyle recommendations.
Personal behavior is a pretty significant part of our national debt, crushing healthcare costs and societal ills. But discussing personal responsibility is unpopular so let’s not talk about it.
Yeah, people are really motivated to make healthy lifestyle changes when they've got boots on their necks and people around them are dropping like flies or getting kidnapped by ICE.
As someone in Appalachia, the sentiment here is "here for a good time, not a long time". Because that's all we have.
You're assuming that people have the money and ability to gave regular checks with their docs.
You're missing that a lot of people just dont go because costs are too high. By the time they do go because its become a major poem it takes more resources to fix them with a higher chance if having a bad outcome.
How bout the government's personal responsibility to the tax payers. We're already spending more money than peer countries and getting less care. We may as well go to a universal system thats cheaper and treats more people.
Another note on personal responsibility, when we are the most obese country, seems like its an epidemic and national issue. Something within the system is causing this outcome. Do let's have thecsystem take on that responsibility.
So many in America have become anti-science. RFK Jr. is the Secretary of Health and Human Services! Add to that guns, opioids, alcohol, expensive medical, poor diets, cost of living, lax regulations and poor diets. Basically, MAGA's political platform.
And then there’s the republicans and Trump trying to gut what little benefits an insured person has. Good! May America start over again as a barren waste land
How could it not whenever republicans have total control. Almost every total red state, up and down, is a shithole. OK went from top 20 in education to the very bottom once republicans took over.
Before the back to back ultra conservative Republican governors took over in 2011 Oklahoma was ranked 17th in the nation for things like head start access, but it was always a lower tiered state in things like actual student achievement. Things have only gotten worse from there. Don't get me started on the tax payer funded charter school racket that for some reason is allowed to be taken advantage of by wealthy Oklahoman families while leaving the people that these charter schools were touted to serve behind that has only ballooned since 2011.
America has enormous productivity and very high gdp per capita. Although the workforce is indebted, stressed, live pay check to pay check, have no sick leave, little vacation time , and have unsafe labour conditions, labour discipline and the general work ethic is very strong.
This is all achievable by Reagan’s system. If you kill off the unproductive people in society, productivity and total wealth will race ahead. It’s survival of the fittest- unless you have money, you die. This is reflected in the statistics of low life expectancy, the general fearful submissiveness or American workers and burgeoning billionaire wealth. It is very much by design
Other countries care about each other and mask so they don't spread viruses. They get vaccines b.c they know it's a herd immunity they can't dip bellow...
The thing about viruses is they tax your immune system and hang out in your body so all other causes of death increase, all other pollutants are harder to overcome.
But people in the US refuse to do simple mitigation, so here we are: constantly getting more vulnerable without M4A.
Just look at disability and heart attack and cancer #'s. They all rose after 2020; covid.
All according to plan. A population who are past their productivity days are useless to the economic system.
They are only economically active on a small scale and not working to generate wealth for the an employer, they arent adding to shareholder value.
I see it as two things, most obviously the health system. But the decay of environmental protection, it's been a slow burn over the years. But when food, water and air quality drop this causes increase in disease.
I see most comments talking about health insurance or healthcare, which probably contribute, but no one’s talking about how everyone’s just completely out of shape. Horrible diets. No one walks anywhere. Look around and half of America is obese. I’d suspect that’s a bigger factor
Automobile dependency too. Not only does it lead to less exercise, it also creates more pollution and kills more Americans per capita than any other rich country, by a pretty wide margin. And that’s just people who die as a direct result of accidents. Over a million Americans are injured in car accidents every year, a lot of those life altering.
But wasn't MAHA supposed to solve the obesity crisis by slashing food regulations, demonizing avocado oil, and replacing artificial dyes in Cheetos and M&M's? /s
The younger people I know are all fitness focused. Much more than my group (GenX) was back in the day. That said, I live in California and the number of people focused on being in shape is much higher than you see a lot of places.
I see it as two things, most obviously the health system. But the decay of environmental protection, it's been a slow burn over the years. But when food, water and air quality drop this causes increase in disease.
Well yeah. We eat poison. Our medical system literally wants chronic disease so it can sell over price ld drugs-services-insurance. And we are deregulating firms that pollute water. This headline is logical.
So, the one soi-disant developed country that has refused universal, tax-supported health care is the one seeing its population die off at accelerating rates and at younger and younger ages. And, having exacerbated the situation by slashing health, education and social support expenditures over a 45 year period so as to give more tax breaks to the very wealthy, they have ended up with a population unable to think its way to anything resembling self defense, let alone system change.
Is it any wonder they have elected ever more selfish and ignorant leaders?
Not so. African Americans live longer that nearly every country in sub Saharan African. Asian Americans are very long lived, and they live longer than just about any place in Asia. Latinos likewise live longer than all but a few countries in Latin America. By contrast White Americans die like flies compared to Canadians, Australians and Western Europeans.
PresentRaspberry6814 | 20 hours ago
A health system run by the insurance industry which can only be accessed if fully employed. How could it fail.
SteelCrow | 19 hours ago
slave chains
GreyTigerFox | 19 hours ago
Don’t forget even if you are fully employed, your corporation is stealing 99% of the value of the labor you produced! We are getting robbed blind — LEGALLY! Yay Uhhmerkkkuh!
Stormcloud217 | 19 hours ago
I worked 6 years making plastic parts, airplane interior panels and medical/dental industry. Sometimes setting up the thermoforming machines and 5-axis CNC machines we would designate initial parts as scrap because they do not meet quality standards.
Anywho, company posted numbers trying to show workers "company waste" because 2-3% of parts were scrapped added up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. So I did the math that the good parts we produce added up to around $10-20 Million (Per Month).
I was making a couple dollars over minimum wage, while the owner, owner's daughter, my manager and my managers son and nephew were all making more money in a manufacturing industry only I went to college for...
Our company owner worked hard for that money, like deciding whether to drive his sports car or fully loaded limited edition truck to work...
GreyTigerFox | 18 hours ago
He sure did, didn’t he?
MatureUsername69 | 4 hours ago
At one of our quarterly meetings they told us how much our building had made that quarter(185 million) and the amount we bitched throughout that entire day made them never tell us how much we made again
AlarmedSnek | 8 hours ago
Stop blaming a country for a shitty government’s shitty governance.
DrDerpberg | 6 hours ago
Americans keep voting for this. Obama tried to improve things and got called a death panel socialist for what realistically only tweaked things around the edges.
If the 60th vote in the Senate wasn't Joe Lieberman, Americans might have a public option. This is entirely the fault of Americans who have been voting Republican or not voting for decades.
Lactobeezor | 7 hours ago
Who do you blame? Personally.
AlarmedSnek | 7 hours ago
It’s not one thing or person to blame, it’s a combination of normalized deviance, over abundance and necessity of money in politics, and a lack of government regulation. Yes I said the R word, and that doesn’t mean they get their mitts in all of our dealings of daily life, it means they need to hold people accountable when they fuck up or enforce rules already on the books.
Lactobeezor | 6 hours ago
Enforcement is a problem
AlarmedSnek | 6 hours ago
Bro. After Epstein, I’m so fucking jaded. The entire system is corrupted and needs flushing. At least Trump pulled the curtain back more so we could clearly see. Now, folks need to wake the fuck up from their brainwashings and start holding these fucks accountable. We need to stop with the lessor of two evils thing also, that’s part of the normalized deviance. “Well he’s morally reprehensible but I’d rather red than blue.” Nah, fuck that.
Lactobeezor | 5 hours ago
Just grabem by the pussy says everything. How could any woman vote for that. If I said that it would be HR as just a start.
EstablishmentIll6192 | 15 hours ago
You must be in US. Healthcare is a constitutional right in Germany. Maybe the dems should be aiming that high in the US?
batlord_typhus | 11 hours ago
Labor has no representation here. Capital prefers politics extend no further than culture war grievances.
GreyTigerFox | 4 hours ago
They absolutely should. But Democrats in the USA are republicans. the republicans are far right domestic terrorists.
Progressives have no official representation as far as the two party system is concerned.
naughtycal11 | 48 minutes ago
And even if you have insurance your bills can be devastating.
loading066 | 4 hours ago
"Right-to-Work"...
IncoherentMutterer | 4 hours ago
"Work will make you free."
valkenar | 12 hours ago
The study said that the cause was driven by drug overdoses and obesity (essentially). That's just slow suicide. Our health insurance system is garbage, but it's not the main cause issue.
PresentRaspberry6814 | 12 hours ago
I would argue that drug overdoses are a direct result of self medicating because proper health care is out of reach of most people.
BadahBingBadahBoom | 10 hours ago
And, you know, the opioid scandal that was a direct result of failures in government regulation of healthcare companies.
There's a reason the opioid crisis only became as large as it did in the US compared to many other highly-developed countries. It wasn't a coincidence, and even though there have been improvements, the US is still suffering the consequences from that corruption of the FDA and lawmakers today.
rachel_ct | 12 hours ago
Those are two very likely outcomes of a healthcare system in crisis.
Aerospike_Ranger | 7 hours ago
True, also the lack of genetic screening for hereditary diseases, and this blind sort of reliance on the healthcare system to fix anything and everything, just doesn't play out. If you have a kind of epidemic 4 generations deep of congenital heart disease killing people in their 40s-50, type 1 diabetes, autism spectrum diseases... Maybe do NOT have kids with someone whose family has the exact same fucking defects. lol!
You may also need to relocate to a region that will allow you have have sort of "free range kids" without some asshole calling the cops because they saw half a dozen kids hanging out at the park unsupervised. This will tend to help break up the sedentary lifestyle of kids just sitting around cooped up, eating junk food all day, and playing video games.
mtcwby | 5 hours ago
We have more genetic screening now than we have ever had.
Status-Pea-5492 | 17 hours ago
A Lancet Public Health study estimated that about 27% of U.S. healthcare spending, roughly $730 billion, was attributable to modifiable risk factors like obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, poor diet and smoking.
Adherence to recommended lifestyle changes is pretty low. A recent meta-analysis of people with hypertension found only 27% overall adherence to lifestyle recommendations.
Personal behavior is a pretty significant part of our national debt, crushing healthcare costs and societal ills. But discussing personal responsibility is unpopular so let’s not talk about it.
InfiniteWaffles58364 | 16 hours ago
Yeah, people are really motivated to make healthy lifestyle changes when they've got boots on their necks and people around them are dropping like flies or getting kidnapped by ICE.
As someone in Appalachia, the sentiment here is "here for a good time, not a long time". Because that's all we have.
cdiddy19 | 4 hours ago
You're assuming that people have the money and ability to gave regular checks with their docs.
You're missing that a lot of people just dont go because costs are too high. By the time they do go because its become a major poem it takes more resources to fix them with a higher chance if having a bad outcome.
How bout the government's personal responsibility to the tax payers. We're already spending more money than peer countries and getting less care. We may as well go to a universal system thats cheaper and treats more people.
Another note on personal responsibility, when we are the most obese country, seems like its an epidemic and national issue. Something within the system is causing this outcome. Do let's have thecsystem take on that responsibility.
GrumpyJenkins | 20 hours ago
Act accordingly
PeterNippelstein | 19 hours ago
Being fit in a collapsing society could have a lot of benefits.
couldbeimpartial | 10 hours ago
Cause who doesn't want to live the longest through terrible times...
Arc125 | 9 hours ago
Cardio is important in the end times, as Zombieland taught us.
Full_Rise_7759 | 28 minutes ago
2nd is double tap nazis, I mean zombies.
DuBcEnT | 19 hours ago
Maybe we should tighten up the ultra rich expectancy a bit too, only fair.
InfiniteWaffles58364 | 16 hours ago
Let's fucking go
Several-Opposite-746 | 18 hours ago
So many in America have become anti-science. RFK Jr. is the Secretary of Health and Human Services! Add to that guns, opioids, alcohol, expensive medical, poor diets, cost of living, lax regulations and poor diets. Basically, MAGA's political platform.
Aggressive-Crow3993 | 20 hours ago
And then there’s the republicans and Trump trying to gut what little benefits an insured person has. Good! May America start over again as a barren waste land
PenguinSunday | 11 hours ago
Succeeding at* ftfy
alternatingflan | 20 hours ago
How could it not whenever republicans have total control. Almost every total red state, up and down, is a shithole. OK went from top 20 in education to the very bottom once republicans took over.
wilkinsk | 19 hours ago
I thought OK has been at the bottom
locavision | 16 hours ago
Before the back to back ultra conservative Republican governors took over in 2011 Oklahoma was ranked 17th in the nation for things like head start access, but it was always a lower tiered state in things like actual student achievement. Things have only gotten worse from there. Don't get me started on the tax payer funded charter school racket that for some reason is allowed to be taken advantage of by wealthy Oklahoman families while leaving the people that these charter schools were touted to serve behind that has only ballooned since 2011.
PresentRaspberry6814 | 18 hours ago
Removal of the Republican caste might reset the balance of a healthy society.
Aerospike_Ranger | 7 hours ago
Corporate sponsored politicians in general. The democrats fucking sold us out for easily 5 generations with all this surveillance state bullshit.
GraduateSchoolCath | 17 hours ago
The death panels were always right there with us once we gave for-profit insurance companies so much power over medical decisions.
ready-redditor-6969 | 19 hours ago
OMG have you seen our healthcare system???
tmotytmoty | 19 hours ago
Hooray! It will be over sooner!
InfiniteWaffles58364 | 16 hours ago
Please remember me when I die from lack of access to healthcare. Which will be relatively soon, unless accessibility improves
NortiusMaximis | 8 hours ago
America has enormous productivity and very high gdp per capita. Although the workforce is indebted, stressed, live pay check to pay check, have no sick leave, little vacation time , and have unsafe labour conditions, labour discipline and the general work ethic is very strong.
This is all achievable by Reagan’s system. If you kill off the unproductive people in society, productivity and total wealth will race ahead. It’s survival of the fittest- unless you have money, you die. This is reflected in the statistics of low life expectancy, the general fearful submissiveness or American workers and burgeoning billionaire wealth. It is very much by design
Frostsorrow | 18 hours ago
When a industry must legally make record profits every quarter, is anyone surprised?
BelCantoTenor | 18 hours ago
In a sick-care system where profits are prioritized over access and actual health, is this a surprise?
DiscoRabbittTV | 12 hours ago
Fuck republicans forever.
Saladcitypig | 19 hours ago
Other countries care about each other and mask so they don't spread viruses. They get vaccines b.c they know it's a herd immunity they can't dip bellow...
The thing about viruses is they tax your immune system and hang out in your body so all other causes of death increase, all other pollutants are harder to overcome.
But people in the US refuse to do simple mitigation, so here we are: constantly getting more vulnerable without M4A.
Just look at disability and heart attack and cancer #'s. They all rose after 2020; covid.
wilkinsk | 19 hours ago
Cool, cool, cool.
Doesn't seem like there's much left to live for anyway
couldbeimpartial | 10 hours ago
Our elected officials should have to step down once they reach the age of the average life expectancy for their constituents.
cdiddy19 | 4 hours ago
Id say even before that
BzhizhkMard | 13 hours ago
We aint meant to survive cause it's a set up
And even though your fed up, huh, you got to keep ya head up.
enolaholmes23 | 8 hours ago
He really was a prophet
BzhizhkMard | 8 hours ago
That man raised me and gave me better advice than my parents at times.
He also spoke the polar opposite of what the government was telling us at that time, it turns out he was the one telling the truth.
Neubo | 12 hours ago
All according to plan. A population who are past their productivity days are useless to the economic system. They are only economically active on a small scale and not working to generate wealth for the an employer, they arent adding to shareholder value.
ascii122 | 16 hours ago
nothing to live for is one reason
lolitsbigmic | 15 hours ago
I see it as two things, most obviously the health system. But the decay of environmental protection, it's been a slow burn over the years. But when food, water and air quality drop this causes increase in disease.
87Roosters | 18 hours ago
I see most comments talking about health insurance or healthcare, which probably contribute, but no one’s talking about how everyone’s just completely out of shape. Horrible diets. No one walks anywhere. Look around and half of America is obese. I’d suspect that’s a bigger factor
Spez_is-a-nazi | 15 hours ago
Automobile dependency too. Not only does it lead to less exercise, it also creates more pollution and kills more Americans per capita than any other rich country, by a pretty wide margin. And that’s just people who die as a direct result of accidents. Over a million Americans are injured in car accidents every year, a lot of those life altering.
locavision | 16 hours ago
But wasn't MAHA supposed to solve the obesity crisis by slashing food regulations, demonizing avocado oil, and replacing artificial dyes in Cheetos and M&M's? /s
L-L_Jimi | 7 hours ago
No individuals were always supposed to manage their own weight, it’s a symptom of the decadence that brought us Trump in the first place.
okaybros | 11 hours ago
Bingo. No exercise and a horrible food base
mtcwby | 5 hours ago
The younger people I know are all fitness focused. Much more than my group (GenX) was back in the day. That said, I live in California and the number of people focused on being in shape is much higher than you see a lot of places.
yomommasbathwater | 14 hours ago
Have the elites tried taking more of our money while providing negative life satisfaction metrics? That should increase expectations.
IntelligentSorbet271 | 9 hours ago
This administration and his henchmen in billionaire owned corporations are killing us and lining their pockets as they do it 🤬😡🤬😡🤬
lolitsbigmic | 15 hours ago
I see it as two things, most obviously the health system. But the decay of environmental protection, it's been a slow burn over the years. But when food, water and air quality drop this causes increase in disease.
Fit-Bus2025 | 18 hours ago
To what? 40 years old. This was the intention of you know who.
Haselrig | 15 hours ago
Wait about six months.
Junglebyron | 17 hours ago
Well yeah. We eat poison. Our medical system literally wants chronic disease so it can sell over price ld drugs-services-insurance. And we are deregulating firms that pollute water. This headline is logical.
klyzklyz | 17 hours ago
But the President is raising the average!
BlueGalangal | 7 hours ago
Elect clowns, get a circus
MrsWidgery | 5 hours ago
So, the one soi-disant developed country that has refused universal, tax-supported health care is the one seeing its population die off at accelerating rates and at younger and younger ages. And, having exacerbated the situation by slashing health, education and social support expenditures over a 45 year period so as to give more tax breaks to the very wealthy, they have ended up with a population unable to think its way to anything resembling self defense, let alone system change.
Is it any wonder they have elected ever more selfish and ignorant leaders?
IGetGuys4URMom | 18 hours ago
The main place to look at for life expectancy in Harlem. It's historically been lower compared to Bangledesh.
NortiusMaximis | 8 hours ago
Not so. African Americans live longer that nearly every country in sub Saharan African. Asian Americans are very long lived, and they live longer than just about any place in Asia. Latinos likewise live longer than all but a few countries in Latin America. By contrast White Americans die like flies compared to Canadians, Australians and Western Europeans.
IGetGuys4URMom | 4 hours ago
>African Americans live longer that nearly every country in sub Saharan African.
You think that Bangledesh is in Africa! 😂
bleu_waffl3s | 18 hours ago
Too hyperbolic to read