Rest of the world looking at us like we're speedrunning mad max.
It's like we're already in the cyberpunk future but without the cybernetics. Also when cybernetics gets developed it'll still be too expensive for the average person to get for like several decades so this situation is only going to get bleaker, but on the plus side when cybernetics becomes affordable for the average person we'll be living in super cyberpunk future! (basically think pre-communism China but with cybernetics)
About three in ten adults report not taking their medicines as prescribed at some point in the past year because of the cost. This includes about one in five who say they have not filled a prescription (21%) or took an over-the counter drug instead (21%), and 12% who say they have cut pills in half or skipped a dose because of the cost.
https://www.kff.org/health-costs/poll-finding/public-opinion-on-prescription-drugs-and-their-prices/
I wouldn't be able to afford my meds if my Dr required me to have routine visits before putting refills in. I can afford either the co-pays for visits, or meds. Not both.
It's literally me, I didn't take my meds due to the cost even tho I needed them for the last week then I realized I still had half a bottle
Precarity is bad for your physical and mental health. Full stop. The system is slowly killing us one paper cut at a time.
Austerity is violence. Resisting a government that imposes austerity is self-defense.
Feels bad knowing that my demise may be a result of this type of social murder (more likely that the regular automobile accident type of social murder will get me first though)
to be clear, i do not blame poor and indebted people for being in need or financially miseducated and then getting predated upon by financial corpos. i have heard this line from a jp morgan employee who also buys into the same logic, and i'm making fun of that.
