Which, in turn, seems to have copied Brazil.
dsilverz
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People seem to be forgetting the existence of robots (such as Spot and Atlas from Boston Dynamics) that can be adapted with guns and programmed to serve the rich in a way that (supposedly) won't turn against them.... (Until someone gets to hack those metallic dogs)
These robots (particularly Spot) are already being used for security and guarding purposes. It's a matter of not if, but when, they get transformed into dystopian real-life Cyberdyne machines.
Human language is so limited compared to the vastness of the mind, especially when our mind got to conceptualize multifaceted aspects of the reality.
For example: human language presumes time and place. What if the concept revolves around the nothingness and non-existence? If I were to say that "nothing is infinite, ever existed", the grammar will need definite article "the" ("THE nothing is infinite, it ever existed") except that it's not a "thing", it's "no thing", so it'd be paradoxical to refer to it as "it" or "the". In my mind, it makes sense, it's clear to me. But words cannot express it as clearly as my thoughts.
So it's can be possibly be a limitation of the whole human language mechanism (independent of which language).
It's not about the money, it's about what money allowed them to possess. If they get to possess all the lands, all the commodities, all the technologies, all the books, everything (as explicitly said by the character's dialogue "We have finally given you all of our worldly possessions", notice how the word "possessions" is used instead of "money"), they'll still have it even though money isn't circulating anymore. After all, money is actually their creation to hold what the money was really meant to represent: gold and wealthy. Money was created as a "certificate of gold ownership" in a world that used to use gold as a means of exchange resources. People don't possess gold anymore, they possess what is promised to be a "certificate of gold", with gold not having monetary backing anymore due to fractional reserve banking and stock market speculation which together "created" "money" out of thin air without actual value other than "guarantee" from the banks that they'd keep accepting it and circulating it, until they don't anymore.
That's why they are investing in robots and automation. Once they have servants programmed within the constraints of their will, servants that (supposedly) won't turn against them because they're non-sentient machines, they won't need "peasants" (as they consider everyone else) anymore.
That's why they're investing in flying to the damn Mars. Once they (supposedly) have a new (supposedly livable) settlement far from "peasants", they can let everyone else die in this scorching Earth that reached this point due to their greedy actions.
I'm Brazilian. Brazil have a free healthcare system called "Sistema Único de Saúde" ("Unified Health System") or, as we often call it by its acronym, "SUS".
While I personally had a fair good experience with it when I needed medical care, SUS is not perfect. There are notorious disparities between Brazilian states regarding to how many public health financing from taxes each city any state gets. For example: the state of São Paulo has better public healthcare than, say, Minas Gerais (and I'm talking about two states that I personally know and resided in, so I'm not talking about something I read somewhere or something I heard from someone). Even when they're neighbors. It's not because Minas Gerais is worse than São Paulo, because it isn't, it's because São Paulo gets to get more tax funding.
The following is recent news (as from this week) from a major Brazilian news television program, translated to English:
That man is hospitalized through the Brazilian public healthcare system. Cases like his happen on a daily basis throughout the Brazilian territory, especially in the northern states, but not limited to. It's just that his case got to get the attention of the media. Several Maurílios (and Marílias) face similar bureaucratic slippery slopes every day.
Is the private healthcare better, then? Hell no, of course not! Our "convênios médicos" are as bureaucratic as the US healthcare insurance, perhaps even worse. The only thing that's far from bureaucratic is "particular healthcare" because the patient pay directly to the doctor, but it's generally expensive and far from the reaches of the reality of millions of Brazilians, and they don't really cover all the medical needs (e.g.: paying directly to a doctor won't cover the need of MRI scanning, because individual doctors often have no MRI machines for their own medical service).
The "Sistema Único de Saúde" is something to be improved and it's far from perfect and it needs lots of fixes, but it's undeniably a public healthcare system model to inspire Americans so they can begin with a proper healthcare system nationwide. I don't really know British NHS or Canadian public healthcare systems, but Brazilian system is probably unique because of how many people it serves (216 million people, more than UK and Canada populations summed up).
and the rest of the fediverse probably wont see this.
As a The Lemmy Club user, I can properly see the post. Federation seems to be working okay.
They could use trikes with baskets big enough to carry lots of groceries.
The school bullying.
Well, he can possibly know people from Deep Web and use platforms inside I2P, Freenet, Yggdrasil, GNUNet or Onion (Tor) network (although I don't recommend this one, as it's poisoned with several FBI-backed nodes) to chat about it.
Even after deletion, Wikipedia keeps the history of editions. If Wikipedia's moderators got to remove the edition history as well, it won't suffice, as there are many backups of Wikipedia out there, because Wikipedia itself is open and easily downloadable (just a couple of gigabytes). Also, there are Wayback Machine and Archive Today.
The desperate order to "delete everything" just confirms how managers and CEOs are absolute unaware of how tech and internet actually works.
If this was a conspiracy to benefit someone to become the next CEO, their shot certainly backfired. The next CEO will be under a massive public scrutiny and if UHC's policies don't change, he/she will certainly be the next target.
Actually, the shot backfired twice: every CEO is now under public scrutiny, as The Adjuster became a powerful symbol of the awakened feeling of "that's enough" inside everyone who can see the corporation greed.
As a non-American citizen (Brazilian), I hope this feeling of "that's enough" could spread beyond US territory, especially towards the southern hemisphere, where the political lobby, bribery and corporate greed is strong and possibly worst than in US. Perhaps it'd bring the fear from people unto politicians and corporations, which will be left with two choices: be changed or be (literally) deposed.