Unmitigated capitalism. The rest of the capitalist world voted for mitigation like safety nets and public healthcare and anti monopoly laws and their enforcement.
The cyberpunk genre is only a little more unrestrained than the US economy
Capitalism is uninterested in your healthcare policy. That’s your country’s failure, not capitalism’s, for once. Market pressures did not invent a gaggle of middle men siphoning the money between patients and care providers. That’s a result of government failures that ossified into a corrupt system benefiting a select few, a scheme which is not unique to capitalism and is actually reminding me of soviet bureaucracy.
The distinction is not purely academic, because correctly pointing out that you’re not fighting capitalism but corrupt bureaucracy makes reform a much easier sell, which is why healthcare reform is a transpartisan issue until donors and lobbyists get involved.
dystopian? this is bog standard capitalist formula, sadly.
so. yeah. dystopian.
Unmitigated capitalism. The rest of the capitalist world voted for mitigation like safety nets and public healthcare and anti monopoly laws and their enforcement.
The cyberpunk genre is only a little more unrestrained than the US economy
How it possibly be “bog standard” when it’s the only developed nation on the planet where it’s true?
development is a spectrum.
The united States is not developed, it’s metastasized.
On top of the other point.
Capitalism is uninterested in your healthcare policy. That’s your country’s failure, not capitalism’s, for once. Market pressures did not invent a gaggle of middle men siphoning the money between patients and care providers. That’s a result of government failures that ossified into a corrupt system benefiting a select few, a scheme which is not unique to capitalism and is actually reminding me of soviet bureaucracy.
The distinction is not purely academic, because correctly pointing out that you’re not fighting capitalism but corrupt bureaucracy makes reform a much easier sell, which is why healthcare reform is a transpartisan issue until donors and lobbyists get involved.