NeoBasilisk wrote:the US will probably join the rest of the industrialized world with regard to healthcare sometime in the next couple decades
Won't even take a decade. The conservatives are starting to jump on the bandwagon of some of these "liberal" ideas...
budzilla wrote:Yeah if only we could all choose where we were born amirite? Anyone living in poverty should just move somewhere else lol what idiots.
If you follow DF any, you see they keep everyone updated on the donations they get. They've been well past the point of qualifying for state subsidized medical care for at least a few years now. They weren't born into poverty, and Tarn, at least, had a promising career track in math. They made choices in life, and they and their family have been fine with it.
Every great medium needs great artists that are willing to sacrifice for their work. It's up to their patrons to make sure they're comfortable in life. And when you've had your work put on display at as a work of digital art at locations like the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.... I realize that doesn't mean you are no longer a starving artist, but you'd think it'd encourage certain financial endowments from those that can afford to give them.
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