Everyone thinks it’s amazing when there’s a successful GoFundMe to pay for someone’s medical treatment, but that’s literally how taxes and socialised medicine work.
yeah but see here’s the thing: taxes and socialized medicine are organized by a huge government with resources and time and ways of collecting money by force. GoFundMe is a private service, there’s no coercion to donate beyond personal guilt, and furthermore people are donating despite paying taxes to the state and paying their own expenses. A successful GoFundMe campaign is evidence that people care about other people enough to inconvenience themselves rather than watch someone else suffer. It’s a sort of reassurance that the world doesn’t entirely suck, whereas socialized medicine, at least in the US, is a hot topic and the arguments over it alone are enough to depress anyone. When people express amazement at a successful GoFundMe, they’re really saying that they’re amazed and heartened at the notion that human beings can be good and kind and thoughtful rather than petty and awful and selfish. They’re saying holy hell LOOK AT WHAT WE CAN DO TOGETHER DESPITE HAVING ABSOLUTELY NO REASON BEYOND ALTRUISM TO DO IT. idk that just seems important to me.
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