>>14386482Yes but not the way we're inclined to think. This dude was a 55 year old freelancer. Then the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos' little pet project, gave him a contract. One thing more and more Canadians are seeing, your government health care is great if your meat wagon suffers a fixable break, but if something systemic afflicts you, you are fucked. Truly and flagrantly fucked and the doctors find it amusing. The power of life and death eventually rots their brain. If you have money, or the right benefit package, your odds of living longer increase dramatically. If you don't, you'll die badly and broke because what you do have will be spent on treatments that will buy a bit of time but eventually will stop working, requiring you to move to another, perhaps even more expensive one. So yes, the fear of poverty and a bad death is causing them to lose it. We've returned to medieval patronage. Many different times are existing concurrently. The only thing not getting any closer is The Future.
