It’s Tuesday and the fog outside is so heavy, there may not be an outside. Who knows for sure.
I’m not sure when the switch came that everything–including places that are not-for-profit–suddenly had make money. Hospitals; universities; places that used to exist for the benefit of the public supported by the public suddenly are nothing more than profit centers.
Pediatrics doesn’t make money? Cut it.
Some areas of study don’t make as much money?
Cut them.
It’s bizarre and disgusting, and sending us hurtling toward the downfall of everything. Greed is now a virtue, and money a god.
All worship at its altar.
Excess is glorified in media. “Luxury brands,” whatever that really means, required to make you into “someone,” as though you didn’t exist until you had a bag you paid 1000xs the cost of making it. It’s still a bag.
Only a bag.
All of the things, things.
While people’s entire existence is devalued so that a few people can buy more things. Or hoard their money when they run out of things to buy.
It is not merely unjust but repulsive, making people fungible units, their only value the money they can or cannot generate. Who decided this was a good system?
How do we make it not the system?
For the second time this week, I don’t have answers, but I do think it’s worth thinking about. Things aren’t how they are because it’s inevitable, because that’s “how they work.”
People make decisions. Politicians pass laws. Who benefits from those laws when Democrats write them?
Who benefits if Republicans do?
Because it is not the same.
Anyway, that’s it for me this Tuesday. Have a great day.
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