• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 months ago

    Depose, deny, defend

    Think deeply about the state monopoly on violence and what purpose it serves. Consider how non-violence has been used to cull and mitigate the effectiveness of movement politics since the civil rights movement, where a class of “liberal” white moderates gets to decide what is acceptable or unacceptable as protest, while they themselves have never and will never participate in any kind of meaningful involvement to increase the sphere of rights for all people. Understand why the grievance politics of the right have been so effective at splitting the white working class from other members of the working class, that the white working class is also abused and broken to the wheel of this system, even if their critisism of it are misplaced and ill informed.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
    1·
    11 months ago

    Unfortunately thats is nothing (tho it’s 73bn I think).

    The lower price is a bit in tune with the recent market overall (-13% vs the -5ish% of the market or whatever) and its still like over 12× higher than it was 20 years ago.

    The saddest part is that what was Saint Luigi’s effect on price was prob the market expectation that one of the megacorps subsidiaries might miss their claim-denial goals to keep up appearances & marketing.

    Thats why I’m saying its the shareholders/capitalism that kills people, CEOs are just dogs with white collars that execute people business for their masters to appease the ever hungry money gods.

  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 months ago

    It’s simply not true that Canada’s health care costs less than $63 billion. The actual number is closing in on $400 billion ($372 billion for 2024).

    And it also should be noted that there are severe problems with our health care system. Severe nursing shortages and very long wait times for a lot of critical care, long wait times to see specialists, etc.

    • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
      1·
      11 months ago

      USian here. We have nursing shortages and long wait times as well, and the private equity fucks taking over our system are always looking for ways to make it worse for more money. One thing they’ve been pushing lately is trying to widen physician/patient ratios, so that doctors spend even less time with each patient.

    • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      Our healthcare only has those problems after alot of cuts. When it used to cost more, it also used that money more efficiently and effectively. The cuts made it far worse than the respective amount of money “saved”, redistributed to worse projects is more accurate.

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    11 months ago

    Looking at that number made me think that it can’t be right unless the company has many customers (much more than Canada’s population) for it to make sense.

    Looked it up, and they have 52 million customers.

    So they make sooo much money from 52 million people that they have this amount to spare that would cover 40 million.

    Yeah, holy shit.

    Edit:

    Honestly, they didn’t even lose that much:

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 months ago

    if they’re not out of business, it’s not enough of a loss.

    completely unrelated but who’s the new ceo just out of curiosity?