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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 04:20:44 No.42288852 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>42288871 >>42288901 >>42288938 >>42288960 >>42289035 >>42290208 >>42290298 >>42290305

Why do they heal you for free? Do taxes pay for it? Or are they non-profit organizations that rely on sales of items to sustain themselves?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 04:22:12 No.42288868 Report

Quoted By: >>42291792

is there even a president in the pokemon world or are elite fours top high government?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 04:22:26 No.42288871 Report

Quoted By: >>42290613

>>42288852
It's communism working, OP.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 04:24:43 No.42288901 Report

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>>42288852
well you're definitely American..

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 04:24:46 No.42288903 Report

Quoted By: >>42289002 >>42290259

everything is free because pokémon exist
need electricity? the fuckers can magically generate lightning bolts. water? get a blastoise. cooking? fire types got you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 04:26:51 No.42288933 Report

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There is a reason they have merged with marts, op

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 04:27:16 No.42288938 Report

Quoted By: >>42289007 >>42289134

>>42288852
because it's a game for children and the pokemon world is a utopia
do you also ask why superman can fly

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 04:27:20 No.42288939 Report

Quoted By: >>42289057 >>42290313

Imagine living in a world where you can't conceptualize free health care

>the land of the "free"

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 04:29:00 No.42288956 Report

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Why don't Chansey just go independent and escape the slavery and heal people in exchange for food goods.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 04:29:24 No.42288960 Report

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>>42288852
>Unova
>Has free health care
WTF my immersion is ruined!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 04:32:28 No.42289002 Report

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>>42288903
This, technically people can encounter infinity number of pokemon, catch em and use them to provide energy and food.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 04:32:45 No.42289007 Report

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>>42288938
>do you also ask why superman can fly
Superman, like other Kryptonians, gets his powers from Earth's yellow sun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 04:34:24 No.42289035 Report

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>>42288852
In the western pokéworld it's paid by the store inside.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 04:36:24 No.42289057 Report

Quoted By: >>42289098

>>42288939
free healthcare or no, the Pokemon world's economy is fucking weird, who actually works besides entertainers, construction workers and the gym leaders/E4?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 04:38:48 No.42289084 Report

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Is Silph co the richest and most powerful company in the Pokemon world?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 04:39:56 No.42289098 Report

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>>42289057
Well there a lot of businessman trainers and there were previously office ladies as well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 04:43:36 No.42289134 Report

Quoted By: >>42289383 >>42289841 >>42290488

>>42288938
>Free Health Care
>Utopia

It's always funny to know that even third world countries have free health care and USA doesn't.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 05:10:04 No.42289383 Report

Quoted By: >>42291634

>>42289134
Fuck man you're so right

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 05:13:57 No.42289422 Report

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>>42289007
But how does it work?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 05:57:57 No.42289841 Report

Quoted By: >>42290428 >>42291634

>>42289134
You get way you pay for, I suppose

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 06:43:08 No.42290208 Report

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>>42288852
It probably doesn't require that many resources, just electricity and tech. Like recharging devices. They're creatures made of energy, it's not like they're requiring iv drips or more than a 5 second stay

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 06:48:53 No.42290259 Report

Quoted By: >>42290299 >>42290874

>>42288903
its more realistic if pokemon need to get energy from somewhere like food and its already known in games and anime that pokemon can run out of steam (see limited PP moves and lt. surge's raichu "ran out of electricity"). Therefore in order to harness pokemon's power you'd have to feed them somehow, it would be like raising cattle for electricity. That would require human labor and hence nothing can be free.

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 06:53:39 No.42290298 Report

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>>42288852
Im from Russia and medicine here is free. including dentists.

in 2017 i had a horrible accident where i pierced my hand with broken GLASS. and mom called ambulance - they arrived within 20 minutes and took me to the hospital where i was for 10 days healing and having operation.
IT WAS ALL FREE!

also as a kid i had 2 teeth removed visiting free dentist.
I never questioned free hospitals in Pokemon but was surprised why every amerifat youtuber makes THEORIES about it. while here in russia medicine is free and its just a regular thing.

And then i found how much it costs in USA...what the actual fuck...
if i lived in russia, my left hand could be completely useless after that accident

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 06:53:49 No.42290299 Report

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>>42290259
Some of them get their energy from semen.

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 06:54:21 No.42290305 Report

Quoted By: >>42290345

>>42288852
Who cares? Answers to those questions won’t make the games more interesting

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 06:55:00 No.42290313 Report

Quoted By: >>42290922

>>42288939
>Imagine living in a world where you can't conceptualize free health care
ITS ALREADY AVAILABLE FOR FREE IN RUSSIA

WHY AMERIFATS ARE SO UNEDUCATED!

you can LITERALLY cut yourself and go to the hospital and all operations and care and 10-20 days in hospital will be FOR FREE

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 06:58:25 No.42290345 Report

Quoted By: >>42290373

>>42290305
This. I bet they also think that chairman rose's plan should have made sense. Proper world building isn't important, just consume product.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 07:02:11 No.42290373 Report

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>>42290345
>Proper world building isn't important
It unironically isn’t. The world just has to be internally consistent. Nobody cares about where pokemon get their magic powers from or how pokemon centers work, but stupid decisions by main characters in the plot aren’t quite the same.
bad plot =/= bad worldbuilding

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 07:08:50 No.42290428 Report

Quoted By: >>42290436

>>42289841
>expensive good, cheap bad
Lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 07:10:04 No.42290436 Report

Quoted By: >>42290447

>>42290428
If you paid to have your Pokemon healed, they would come out with buffs to all stats.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 07:11:12 No.42290447 Report

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>>42290436
Then fuckers here would complain about it being different

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 07:16:46 No.42290488 Report

Quoted By: >>42291634

>>42289134
There is no free healthcare, you pay for it some way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 07:31:50 No.42290613 Report

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>>42288871
You get to keep your prize money though and there are still rich kids to battle so it is probably more socialism

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 08:07:36 No.42290874 Report

Quoted By: >>42290973

>>42290259
everything pokemon do openly defies the laws of physics
why would you assume they follow the law of conservation of energy
one of them literally created the universe

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 08:12:55 No.42290922 Report

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>>42290313
lmao I wouldn't trust Russian doctors with a goddamn bandaid

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 08:19:30 No.42290973 Report

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>>42290874
>why would you assume they follow the law of conservation of energy
They need to eat and have PP. Did you read his post?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 08:23:21 No.42291001 Report

Quoted By: >>42291066

You dont have to fill out your taxes in game but I bet you have to give at least 40% of your income from pokemon battles to the pokemon government.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 08:25:31 No.42291020 Report

Quoted By: >>42291066

Probably partially paid for by store sales and partially sponsored by the Pokemon league. Healing Pokemon should be cheap anyway since it's done using magic technology so opperating a Pokecenter is like running a small business: pay rent, pay bills, pay employees. There's also a good chance that it's a subscription/insurance based system mandatory if you own Pokemon. Not everyone will be doing Pokemon battles so it stays profitable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 08:31:17 No.42291066 Report

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>>42291001
>>42291020
These, but with a twist: Your parents are actually the ones that pay for the service. When you get registered as a Trainer, your parents pay a service fee to maintain your license, which entitles you to the services at a Pokémon Center.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 08:33:20 No.42291083 Report

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 08:40:18 No.42291129 Report

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I've always thought that it's funded by the pokemon league.
They operate and take profits from the pokemarts, then all the revenue they get from the pokemon league tournament, the profits from other companies using it as an advertisement platform, then the TV coverage and any commercials they run during the tournament.

Since it all depends on pokemon trainers getting to the league it makes sense that they would have that incentive/ helping hand for them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 10:31:19 No.42291634 Report

Quoted By: >>42291667

>>42289383
>>42289841
>>42290488
amerifags in denial

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 10:39:47 No.42291661 Report

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What is Kanto's tax plan?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 10:41:22 No.42291667 Report

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>>42291634
I'm Europefag and don't have to pay when I go to the hospital but I pay tax for it from may salary whenever I like it or not.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 11:13:51 No.42291792 Report

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>>42288868
I believe it's the Gym leaders and the elite four who "run" the regions

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