isn’t that the reverse argument? Typically only <20% of people take the healthcare system for granted whilst everyone else pays their dues. Here, it’s everyone pays their electricity bills but 1 absolute behemoth of a customer hordes the resources, and instead of being cut off or denied service as would be typical in other services, they pay hand over fist to get first dibs on all resources, whilst passing off the cost to everyone else
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Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 1 day agoIt is like Obamacare. You have a person who smokes, gets drunk, eats a lot of sugar, don’t exercise, you pay for their bill through hiked premiums.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
nexas_XIII@midwest.social 1 day ago
Like health insurance isn’t already like that lol, lmao even.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Spewing more inflammatory bullshit again, huh.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
it’s my life choices that rise my electricity prices, i should have built a giant data centre to consume the equivalent of a whole town do the taxpayer’s would subsidise my bills.
Jrockwar@feddit.uk 1 day ago
In the countries where healthcare has existed (and worked) for decades, there are additional taxes to alcohol, sugar, tobacco, petrol to cover for this.
And also yeah, and I have no problem whatsoever knowing that a small part of my salary goes towards saving the life of people who wouldn’t be able to afford private healthcare. That’s called empathy - and I wish that’d sink in as well.
Caffeinated_Sloth@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d rather my part of the public money go to help an alcoholic neighbor than to subsidize a certain Coastal Elite’s habit of buying golf courses and ballrooms.