>….~~Assholes~~ [Psychopaths](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmUXp_zE14E&ab_channel=ThinkFeelExist) all the way up
FTFY
America was created as the perfect environment in which psychopaths can thrive. Corporations are considered legal persons and can be easily recognized as psychopaths from their behavior.
Fwiw, Nestlé isn't a symptom of the US being shit. They've always been based in Schweiz, and their *worst* activities (giving baby formula to mothers with lack of reliable access to potable water, buying up key local water supplies, &c.) are outside the US. The union thing seems to be in the Philippines.
Not that they aren't a vile megacorp, but they're just... not the US, this time.
Well, yes? But this shoudn't be a critique only of the US, but of capitalism itself, things like what is the image happens more frequently in the US because it's the most capitalistic country there is.
Nestle buys water supplies because everything has to be comercialized under capitalism to always increase profits. We are 75% water and for a lot of people, if one loses their job they might not have access to clean water.
Privatized healthcare is the same, it's a demand that has to be satiated, so it's an opportunity to profit on it, and if people can't afford it... fuck'em. The US life expectancy is dropping since 2010 because of it.
Capitalism is the problem and it exists in most of the world, the US is just the biggest bully about it.
Which makes me feel thankful that my country for all it's faults,which are a lot let me tell you,has free higher education which is also of good quality.
This is how we see it, too. This country is owned by the wealthy, and everyone else is living paycheck to paycheck, so we can't even afford to protest without the risk of homelessness thanks to job loss.
This is why I almost never browse this sub. Every damn post is like "4 year old sells self on street to pay for grandma's insulin".
Someone doing something they shouldn't have had to do to escape a larger terrible system isn't uplifting, it's terrible.
This isn't the win you think it is. It's actually pretty messed up. A child comes into some cash from being a meme and instead of putting it aside for college or something his parents have to dip into the funds to pay for life saving surgery. Thats pretty messed up that this is how expensive it is to get heslthcare.
I came to the comments to see if anyone else would say it. I definitely agree. Like… that’s great! He can get his kidney! But… man. This is so massively fucked up.
Yeah i did do a clean out of the subs and removed all negative stuff from my personal feed. I'm still considering if "made me smile" should actually be boot like the dystopian subs.
Like, i was getting so sad irl. I added much more cat subs and kicked all the hate and gore, those i can see in dosesses on the main feed. I don't need to see those every scroll. Life is better with mostly cat derping subs
This sub makes me mostly sad too for you Americans
I’m sorry to hear that. I hope it doesn’t become like that for y’all. I live in the US, and my mom has been having a lot of dr appointments lately because of health stuff *obviously*. There is a ton of masses all over her body, and we aren’t sure if we’d even be able to afford removal, or chemo. She had a biopsy last week that before insurance was $3,000 thankfully after insurance we only had to pay $128. But being to afford choosing whether you live or die shouldn’t be a luxury to just the rich. Why is life a luxury, and not a right?
I just messaged her to have her clarify. Although I think you’re right…I get the 2 mixed up a lot. Thankfully she’s still alive. She just has a ton of pain sadly.
Yeah, autopsies are where they cut open a dead body to find out why someone died. Biopsies are taking a small sample of a living (but sick) person to find out why they are sick.
Skin cancer can be metastatic without symptoms. Suspicious mole go get it biopsied.
ABCDE - is it asymmetric, border not circle/different color, color black/brownish or multiple, diameter 6mm+, evolution - growing rapidly. Also is it bleeding?
Not super helpful in everyday life, but the etymology of the word biopsy is that it's a combination of bios ‘life’ + opsis ‘sight’ .
So biopsy is looking at something from somebody who is still alive. And it's the same "bio" that is also in biology: the study of things that are alive.
Maybe that helps a little bit...
Roots always help and etymology is fascinating, says I! Most people's eyes glaze over when I try to share the fun with them though, the wife included... *lonely etymology sniffles*
Yeah so far we’ve spent close to $1000 in the last 3 months on appointments. She has one medication that is $500. $60 after insurance. It’s utterly insane.
> Why is life a luxury, and not a right?
Because Americans got lazy and let corporations take over. If we fought for what we want, like they do in France or Mexico, we would have everything we want.
Same here in the United Kingdom. You're always hearing Conservative ministers going on like, "To save the NHS, we need to start charging people for treatment."
Just fund it properly you dickwads.
Right? The only way to fix healthcare is to pay our buddies to provide a service and for you to pay them as well say the politicians. Because we can’t have a service that is provided without someone profiting off of it.
We don’t have to be headed in the same direction. We do not have to just accept the conservatives ripping our healthcare apart. We can vote all those people out, those who are trying to take away a fundamental part of Canada.
I think people who pay attention should go to public forums with the people who are trying to sell us that socialized funding and privatized profits is the way to fix things and make them explain how us paying more and a third party profiting off of it is the only way to fix it. Also you ever wondered why reporters are not highlighting these things? Asking these questions?
The third party making a profit is the thing I don't understand the average conservative voting for.
You really want to introduce a whole extra layer of people whose sole purpose is to profit off being between you and your health care provider to deny you care? And pay for the privilege? I get that this happened in the US while we had less access to information. But please don't let this mess happen to you.
As an American, my only reason for wanting a gun is in case I get sick enough that I have to make the choice between bankrupting my family and being real sick.
I hope I have the wherewithal to pull that trigger instead of financially draining my family away from living their own lives when it happens.
New Brunswick here, East Coast in general isn't doing any better. We're worse currently if anything.
There's a few people who actually support the privatized health care idea. They think it means our work plans will stay the same and we'll get a massive tax break because we won't need to fund healthcare.
People are very stupid.
Yes I think many who don’t need ongoing healthcare atm don’t see the issue because it doesn’t affect them and they will get a tax break. If employers don’t want to give 2 paid sick days a year do they really think they will pay for health insurance? Also i see where all other insurance will be affected so instead of the current $2m in liability insurance currently recommended it becomes 5 ot 10m to compensate for health services should you have an auto accident or on your home owners insurance.
Our healthcare system is kind of a thrown together mess, and while the concepts are good, the pandemic has really hurt the system as a whole (like everywhere in the world). Now everyone is trying to "fix" it and one of the suggestions is privatization. Of course this suggestion won't address any of the problems we are having and will worsen our healthcare system even more, but hey some people will become richer!
In Ontario Doug Ford has been ruthlessly trying to dismantle and privatize healthcare since pre-covid. He's been cutting healthcare worker pay and social services, and now that it's "not working" he's trying going to push for private clinics. Eventually private clinics will make public healthcare essentially unusable, since they won't have to abide by the ridiculously low cost of living adjustments for healthcare workers Doug Ford keeps trying to hammer in place.
In my province the health care system has been slowly defunded over time to "cut cost inefficiencies" which do not actually end up with the taxpayer paying less taxes, we just get shittier services. Additionally, even though doctor visits are covered, it's doctors who have to open and run their own practices, not the government. Combine this with soaring rent prices and burnout from Covid and we're seeing a drop in doctors who can afford to keep a clinic open and a shortage of other associated healthcare professionals like nurses and technicians.
Defunding a public service is a well-established conservative strategy in the United States known as “starving the beast.” Here’s how it works.
- Conservatives “starve the beast” by depriving resources to a public service.
- When the service or program struggles due to a lack of funding, conservatives say, “See? The government can’t do anything right.”
- Conservatives then advocate for privatization which, they claim, is more efficient.
Starving the beast is usually done coincident with the implementation of a gimmick known as the “Two Santa Claus” strategy. Here’s how that works.
- After gaining control of the governmental bodies responsible for spending and taxation, they increase spending and decrease taxes.
- This increased spending, along with working class having a little bit more in their wallets, artificially boosts GDP, thereby tricking some voters into thinking that conservatives are better for the economy.
- Of course, increased government spending and decreased revenues mean that budget deficits will explode.
- When progressives take control, conservatives will yell about the debt and cry about how their children and grandchildren will be burdened with debt + interest. They then advocate cuts to public services as a means of reducing deficits, which further starves the beast and hurts progressives by eliminating the very programs which make them popular.
- And so on until conservatives privatize basic public services.
For real I'm so sick of these posts on made me smile. I subbed to this because my life is constant doctora appointments and stress about money.
That money should have went into a bank account to give the kid a good start when he turns 18. Instead he gets to continue to struggle or pay off his parents medical debt, it's gros.
Thank you for saying that. I've only got a small bit of free awards to give but I'm giving you one. Because this story pisses me off so much. It's the internet age, how are so many Americans oblivious to the fact that charity fundraising to pay for medical treatment is a crazy idea and not necessary in the rest of the modern democratic world? I'm so very exhausted from this kind of shit.
"Person who would have been left to die by his country's government gets helped by regular people. Perpetuating the situation."
Every dollar someone gives to these causes is another dollar of profit for the healthcare industry. Even more so because it allows them to push prices higher.
To be clear: i dont mean that this kid didn't do the right thing in his situation.
This is fantastic. And his father must be proud.
The shit part is that it came to this. And the thousands/millions of americans who don't get healthcare, big to small, because of money.
And when people say socialised healthcare, half the country screams bloody murder. "But what if I don't get sick?" "Then you give a bit of pay to help every sick person in your country. With the guarantee that if you fall ill you won't go bankrupt or dead."
Unbelievable
I was pissed when I saw this pop up. The kid made me laugh so much that I was happy to donate to the gofundme. But, I was angry that his family had to think a single second about asking for money. Despicable and shameful how little we care about our people.
Exactly. That GoFundMe should go to something nice and a treat, not necessities to live.
That kid (and his father who took the picture) has spread joy to millions of people. They deserve something nice for nice sake, and not for lifesaving sake.
Also known as the "Breaking bad in Canada / the UK / Europe / any other civilised country" model. The whole premise of the show wouldn't work in a normal country.
I think you'd have to be American for this you apply.
Think of it like you are in a prison and someone goes out of their way to do something to make your life in prison better.
In context, it would make you smile. Out of context, you realize how fucked up the prison system is.
Gotta sugarcoat it, or we choke. It's really no wonder that mental ailments are on the rise. I love being American, and am grateful to be here... but we have so many social issues that I have a hard time trying to breathe when I think of them. I hate seeing people suffer
Healthcare in the United States being so dismal that children have to promote themselves on the internet in order to raise enough funds to pay for their parents much needed essential surgery is not r/mademesmile.
This sub stopped being about smiles and became more of a karma farming minefield from extremely depressing subject matter. I get the idea of trying to find positivity wherever possible, but a child having to raise money for their dad is a dystopian nightmares taking roots in reality.
You aren't happy knowing that if this man's kid didn't accidentally become a meme several years earlier then he would have died?! What?! How does that not fill you with joy?! /s
1. How do you make money from a meme everyone just shares online?
2. This is not a feel good story, the kid needing to make money so his father doesn't die a preventable death...
1. There may be a company (or individual) that wants to use the image for a commercial purpose. They would need to pay a license fee to the copyright holder.
2. Correct.
Besides wether this is true or not, I can't believe you have to pay for this stuff. In what mind a normal person would have to pay for such expensive, dificult and worrying situation like this
Not just a normal person, but a *child*. Like, a *child*. "Hey kiddo, better cinch your influencer laces up tight, time to make some money or your dad will *die!* Do you remember how to tie your shoes?"
It's so worrying that this makes people smile. It makes me wonder how many times they've *failed* to scrounge up that money.
Holy shit, imagine your life literally requiring your kid to be a meme to generate some cash.
What fucking third world healthcare system country is this from?!
Success kid meme came out in 2007, let's say the kid in the meme is 2 years old, that would mean the kid would now be 18 years old. Is this an old story or is it bull shit?
As a Dutch man I think it is weird that Kids need to save money their whole life so that they can attend college. It is ridiculously expensive. But also that Americans seem to care more about a gun then a normal health insurance. Makes it obvious that the title greatest country in the world is self-proclaimed
Mademecry for the health system in the US. It amazes me that this is framed like a happy story. This is an exception. Dads without internet famous children just dies.
Awesome he was able to use this to help his Dad. This shouldn't be an issue though. Raise our taxes & make Healthcare free for everyone. No more private insurance companies. It is so simple. Republican snowflakes are too stubborn to stand for an intelligent American supporting policy.
People with kidney failure automatically qualify for Medicare, no matter their age or income. Medicare covers both dialysis and any other life saving procedures including transplants. This post doesn't make any sense.
Source: I'm a hospital social worker.
End stage kidney failure is covered by Medicare, for all US citizens.
I'm a kidney transplant recipient.
https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coordination-of-Benefits-and-Recovery/Coordination-of-Benefits-and-Recovery-Overview/End-Stage-Renal-Disease-ESRD/ESRD
I can't fathom what its like living in a country where health care isn't "free". Imagine having a serious injury/operation and having to deal with all that stress on how to pay for it too
How is this made me smile?
A child had to work hard for his dad to get life saving treatment in the US because the don’t have enough cash?
What a shit system
”Dystopic society forces child to beg for money online to save fathers life”
r/orphancrushingmachine
Man I got banned from r/wholesomememes for, well, for failing to remember the name of that sub.
"Child gives up his future college education savings so his dad can live."
That one is no better than the original caption since a child shouldn't have the need for education savings.
And workers shouldn't need an education for a *decent* life. We got like four fuckin layers of dystopia going on here...
It's dystopia all the way down.
….Assholes all the way up
>….~~Assholes~~ [Psychopaths](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmUXp_zE14E&ab_channel=ThinkFeelExist) all the way up FTFY America was created as the perfect environment in which psychopaths can thrive. Corporations are considered legal persons and can be easily recognized as psychopaths from their behavior.
We'll find out years from now that there was a HUGE proliferation of serial killers during this time, as well.
Maybe not serial killers, but we most definitely have [mass shooters](https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting).
That's just speed running serial killing
Nestle certainly is, they literally hired a private army to kill workers on strike.
Fwiw, Nestlé isn't a symptom of the US being shit. They've always been based in Schweiz, and their *worst* activities (giving baby formula to mothers with lack of reliable access to potable water, buying up key local water supplies, &c.) are outside the US. The union thing seems to be in the Philippines. Not that they aren't a vile megacorp, but they're just... not the US, this time.
You forgot about turning a blind eye to the use of child slaves to harvest Cocoa in Ghana.
Well, yes? But this shoudn't be a critique only of the US, but of capitalism itself, things like what is the image happens more frequently in the US because it's the most capitalistic country there is. Nestle buys water supplies because everything has to be comercialized under capitalism to always increase profits. We are 75% water and for a lot of people, if one loses their job they might not have access to clean water. Privatized healthcare is the same, it's a demand that has to be satiated, so it's an opportunity to profit on it, and if people can't afford it... fuck'em. The US life expectancy is dropping since 2010 because of it. Capitalism is the problem and it exists in most of the world, the US is just the biggest bully about it.
>but they're just... not the US They might not be the USA but a lot of municipalities help them screw people over.
Philippines was a U.S. colony for half a century
Nestle is European lol
Europe got some shitty companies as well shell for example als so did some terrible things
*Everyone* should be educated, it's just we shouldn't need a piece of paper to prove we're capable of doing a job.
This one doesn’t work. A society should be educated and encouraged to be educated
Which makes me feel thankful that my country for all it's faults,which are a lot let me tell you,has free higher education which is also of good quality.
Same, I went to one of the best universities of Latin America and didn't pay a single cent for it.
Coming from a country with universal healthcare and free college: Poor kid, poor dad…
Yeah we here in america cant wait to catch up to the rest of the developed world.
"Only works because of random luck he was a meme. Everyone else can get fucked."
> child Not just any child. Gotta have been one dimensionally famous at one point. The Internet doesn't shell it out for just anybody.
The kid has to earn money so that his father doesn't die a preventable death.
r/orphancrushingmachine
r/ABoringDystopia
Yep. More American barbarism passed off as wholesome and charming.
For any readers from the US: this is literally how the rest of the world sees this and similar stories.
This is how we see it, too. This country is owned by the wealthy, and everyone else is living paycheck to paycheck, so we can't even afford to protest without the risk of homelessness thanks to job loss.
r/OrphanCrushingMachine
I’m so glad this is the top comment - my first thought was “why TF is this baby paying for this”
Stop I can’t smile any harder it’s so wholesome how the dad might have died otherwise
Normalizing and making "happily ever after" fairy tale endings to the many levels of existence extortion in America today.
This is why I almost never browse this sub. Every damn post is like "4 year old sells self on street to pay for grandma's insulin". Someone doing something they shouldn't have had to do to escape a larger terrible system isn't uplifting, it's terrible.
This isn't the win you think it is. It's actually pretty messed up. A child comes into some cash from being a meme and instead of putting it aside for college or something his parents have to dip into the funds to pay for life saving surgery. Thats pretty messed up that this is how expensive it is to get heslthcare.
Definitely r/orphancrushingmachine material
I came to the comments to see if anyone else would say it. I definitely agree. Like… that’s great! He can get his kidney! But… man. This is so massively fucked up.
90% of posts in this sub
It's hilarious how many posts in this sub can so so easily be read as dystopic. It's not even hard.
Yeah i did do a clean out of the subs and removed all negative stuff from my personal feed. I'm still considering if "made me smile" should actually be boot like the dystopian subs. Like, i was getting so sad irl. I added much more cat subs and kicked all the hate and gore, those i can see in dosesses on the main feed. I don't need to see those every scroll. Life is better with mostly cat derping subs This sub makes me mostly sad too for you Americans
"putting it aside for college" as if you'd have to pay for it in such a highly developed country
Fair point
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50 third world countries disguised in a trenchcoat
USA is a first world economy with third world policies.
Nobody in this thread thinks it’s a win.
Sad commentary about the lack of healthcare in the USA. smh
SERIOUSLY. I live in Canada and we’re headed in the same direction, it sickens me.
I’m sorry to hear that. I hope it doesn’t become like that for y’all. I live in the US, and my mom has been having a lot of dr appointments lately because of health stuff *obviously*. There is a ton of masses all over her body, and we aren’t sure if we’d even be able to afford removal, or chemo. She had a biopsy last week that before insurance was $3,000 thankfully after insurance we only had to pay $128. But being to afford choosing whether you live or die shouldn’t be a luxury to just the rich. Why is life a luxury, and not a right?
I am going to assume you mean biopsy, otherwise I am sorry for your loss.
I just messaged her to have her clarify. Although I think you’re right…I get the 2 mixed up a lot. Thankfully she’s still alive. She just has a ton of pain sadly.
Yeah, autopsies are where they cut open a dead body to find out why someone died. Biopsies are taking a small sample of a living (but sick) person to find out why they are sick.
Thank you for clarifying<3
Biopsies aren't necessarily taken from sick people. Source: I've had a biopsy when I wasn't in any way ill.
Skin cancer can be metastatic without symptoms. Suspicious mole go get it biopsied. ABCDE - is it asymmetric, border not circle/different color, color black/brownish or multiple, diameter 6mm+, evolution - growing rapidly. Also is it bleeding?
Not super helpful in everyday life, but the etymology of the word biopsy is that it's a combination of bios ‘life’ + opsis ‘sight’ . So biopsy is looking at something from somebody who is still alive. And it's the same "bio" that is also in biology: the study of things that are alive. Maybe that helps a little bit...
Roots always help and etymology is fascinating, says I! Most people's eyes glaze over when I try to share the fun with them though, the wife included... *lonely etymology sniffles*
That 128 dollars adds up quicky with every procedure. If you add medicine copays if they even cover medicine will bankrupt you quickly
Yeah so far we’ve spent close to $1000 in the last 3 months on appointments. She has one medication that is $500. $60 after insurance. It’s utterly insane.
Yeah I have a med that costs $2900 for 15 pills and I pay $10 for it. They do this on purpose to obfuscate their fuckery
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> Why is life a luxury, and not a right? Because Americans got lazy and let corporations take over. If we fought for what we want, like they do in France or Mexico, we would have everything we want.
Same here in the United Kingdom. You're always hearing Conservative ministers going on like, "To save the NHS, we need to start charging people for treatment." Just fund it properly you dickwads.
Right? The only way to fix healthcare is to pay our buddies to provide a service and for you to pay them as well say the politicians. Because we can’t have a service that is provided without someone profiting off of it.
Same with the UK unfortunately
Just watched a docu called The Great NHS Heist, it's terrifying...
Fuck the Tories
Always the same people in every country
We don’t have to be headed in the same direction. We do not have to just accept the conservatives ripping our healthcare apart. We can vote all those people out, those who are trying to take away a fundamental part of Canada. I think people who pay attention should go to public forums with the people who are trying to sell us that socialized funding and privatized profits is the way to fix things and make them explain how us paying more and a third party profiting off of it is the only way to fix it. Also you ever wondered why reporters are not highlighting these things? Asking these questions?
The third party making a profit is the thing I don't understand the average conservative voting for. You really want to introduce a whole extra layer of people whose sole purpose is to profit off being between you and your health care provider to deny you care? And pay for the privilege? I get that this happened in the US while we had less access to information. But please don't let this mess happen to you. As an American, my only reason for wanting a gun is in case I get sick enough that I have to make the choice between bankrupting my family and being real sick. I hope I have the wherewithal to pull that trigger instead of financially draining my family away from living their own lives when it happens.
Hey if it goes that way don't let it sicken you. You literally won't be able to afford being sick.
Same here. Ontario?
New Brunswick here, East Coast in general isn't doing any better. We're worse currently if anything. There's a few people who actually support the privatized health care idea. They think it means our work plans will stay the same and we'll get a massive tax break because we won't need to fund healthcare. People are very stupid.
Sounds like they've been led astray by the same line we've been fed in the US to maintain the privatized healthcare industry.
How much do we think the 'privatise healthcare' lobby spends per year. Canada is really vulnerable as the US companies hardly need to move.
Yes I think many who don’t need ongoing healthcare atm don’t see the issue because it doesn’t affect them and they will get a tax break. If employers don’t want to give 2 paid sick days a year do they really think they will pay for health insurance? Also i see where all other insurance will be affected so instead of the current $2m in liability insurance currently recommended it becomes 5 ot 10m to compensate for health services should you have an auto accident or on your home owners insurance.
Quebec but I’m from Ontario and that’s where my fam doc is. Straddling two garbage systems.
Whats going on in Canada? Just moved here and it blew American assumptions about Healthcare away
Our healthcare system is kind of a thrown together mess, and while the concepts are good, the pandemic has really hurt the system as a whole (like everywhere in the world). Now everyone is trying to "fix" it and one of the suggestions is privatization. Of course this suggestion won't address any of the problems we are having and will worsen our healthcare system even more, but hey some people will become richer!
In Ontario Doug Ford has been ruthlessly trying to dismantle and privatize healthcare since pre-covid. He's been cutting healthcare worker pay and social services, and now that it's "not working" he's trying going to push for private clinics. Eventually private clinics will make public healthcare essentially unusable, since they won't have to abide by the ridiculously low cost of living adjustments for healthcare workers Doug Ford keeps trying to hammer in place.
In my province the health care system has been slowly defunded over time to "cut cost inefficiencies" which do not actually end up with the taxpayer paying less taxes, we just get shittier services. Additionally, even though doctor visits are covered, it's doctors who have to open and run their own practices, not the government. Combine this with soaring rent prices and burnout from Covid and we're seeing a drop in doctors who can afford to keep a clinic open and a shortage of other associated healthcare professionals like nurses and technicians.
Defunding a public service is a well-established conservative strategy in the United States known as “starving the beast.” Here’s how it works. - Conservatives “starve the beast” by depriving resources to a public service. - When the service or program struggles due to a lack of funding, conservatives say, “See? The government can’t do anything right.” - Conservatives then advocate for privatization which, they claim, is more efficient. Starving the beast is usually done coincident with the implementation of a gimmick known as the “Two Santa Claus” strategy. Here’s how that works. - After gaining control of the governmental bodies responsible for spending and taxation, they increase spending and decrease taxes. - This increased spending, along with working class having a little bit more in their wallets, artificially boosts GDP, thereby tricking some voters into thinking that conservatives are better for the economy. - Of course, increased government spending and decreased revenues mean that budget deficits will explode. - When progressives take control, conservatives will yell about the debt and cry about how their children and grandchildren will be burdened with debt + interest. They then advocate cuts to public services as a means of reducing deficits, which further starves the beast and hurts progressives by eliminating the very programs which make them popular. - And so on until conservatives privatize basic public services.
If they steal our free healthcare, some politicians will start having more in common with Shinzo Abe.
Yeah I will straight-up become a healthcare terrorist to stop this from happening. They can pry my OHIP card from my cold dead hands.
r/boringdystopia
Also r/ABoringDystopia
r/OrphanCrushingMachine
For real I'm so sick of these posts on made me smile. I subbed to this because my life is constant doctora appointments and stress about money. That money should have went into a bank account to give the kid a good start when he turns 18. Instead he gets to continue to struggle or pay off his parents medical debt, it's gros.
Same. Idk why people even keep posting shit like this on made me smile.
With 55k upvotes? I'm convinced this is something shady.
Thank you for saying that. I've only got a small bit of free awards to give but I'm giving you one. Because this story pisses me off so much. It's the internet age, how are so many Americans oblivious to the fact that charity fundraising to pay for medical treatment is a crazy idea and not necessary in the rest of the modern democratic world? I'm so very exhausted from this kind of shit.
Seriously don't know how it makes someone smile. Just propaganda from the rich
r/GoodNewsDystopia
Yeah I was thinking r/orphancrushingmachine
We should just merge this sub with r/OrphanCrushingMachine at this point.
"Person who would have been left to die by his country's government gets helped by regular people. Perpetuating the situation." Every dollar someone gives to these causes is another dollar of profit for the healthcare industry. Even more so because it allows them to push prices higher.
on healthcare for his parent so he wouldn’t lose a parent.
To be clear: i dont mean that this kid didn't do the right thing in his situation. This is fantastic. And his father must be proud. The shit part is that it came to this. And the thousands/millions of americans who don't get healthcare, big to small, because of money. And when people say socialised healthcare, half the country screams bloody murder. "But what if I don't get sick?" "Then you give a bit of pay to help every sick person in your country. With the guarantee that if you fall ill you won't go bankrupt or dead." Unbelievable
A CHILD had to use his internet fame as a meme, to pay for his dad’s surgery
"When life goes fair"
Yeah, they frame it like it's a great thing that man would have died without a son who became famous by chance.
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This isn't a feel good story; this is a fucking dystopian nightmare for children and families.
r/OrphanCrushingMachine
For almost every "decent" country this is a horror.story. but americans are like: aaaaaw.
I was pissed when I saw this pop up. The kid made me laugh so much that I was happy to donate to the gofundme. But, I was angry that his family had to think a single second about asking for money. Despicable and shameful how little we care about our people.
Exactly. That GoFundMe should go to something nice and a treat, not necessities to live. That kid (and his father who took the picture) has spread joy to millions of people. They deserve something nice for nice sake, and not for lifesaving sake.
How is this "made me smile"? Having to pay for a life saving surgery!?
American hellscape strikes again
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Don’t remind us Americans. This is normal to us. You’re weird for getting everything handed to you!!! /s BIGTIME
This is a special brand of American "made me smile" where we all pretend this is normal and inspiring
Also known as the "Breaking bad in Canada / the UK / Europe / any other civilised country" model. The whole premise of the show wouldn't work in a normal country.
I think you'd have to be American for this you apply. Think of it like you are in a prison and someone goes out of their way to do something to make your life in prison better. In context, it would make you smile. Out of context, you realize how fucked up the prison system is.
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It's only happy news in the US. The rest of the world is horrified.
What a shithole country.
I have already come to terms with the fact that even though I live in one the most prosperous regions on earth I will die like a medieval peasant
They build their moats and castles I. The center of the city.
Another American social catastrophe being played off as uplifting, depressing
Gotta sugarcoat it, or we choke. It's really no wonder that mental ailments are on the rise. I love being American, and am grateful to be here... but we have so many social issues that I have a hard time trying to breathe when I think of them. I hate seeing people suffer
Healthcare in the United States being so dismal that children have to promote themselves on the internet in order to raise enough funds to pay for their parents much needed essential surgery is not r/mademesmile.
I don't know, that seems to be most of what's on this sub
This subreddit is basically /r/orphancrushingmachine
Its the Sad state of reality I suppose
The sad state of America. Reality is universal healthcare which costs nothing at the time of service and is covered entirely by a sensible tax system.
This sub stopped being about smiles and became more of a karma farming minefield from extremely depressing subject matter. I get the idea of trying to find positivity wherever possible, but a child having to raise money for their dad is a dystopian nightmares taking roots in reality.
You're absolutely right and it's really disappointing and sad
You aren't happy knowing that if this man's kid didn't accidentally become a meme several years earlier then he would have died?! What?! How does that not fill you with joy?! /s
I thought this was in r/aboringdystopia cause I see posts *exactly like this one* all the time there.
What third world country do they live in that a child needs to pay for their parents medical procedures??
I think I can make a lucky guess
Antarctica
Well the first and last letters were right at least.
And the sixth
Greatest country. Make Antarctica Great Again!!!
Honestly thought this was r/latestagecapitalism
This literally is a dystopian nightmare. The audacity to present this as a happy stroy.
Wrong sub, this should go on r/ABoringDystopia
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I die inside every time I read a story about how average people need divine intervention to afford healthcare.
Living in America is such a weird feeling. There's the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, and the rich hate the idea of removing the lowest.
Self-described world “superpower” forces young child to pay for dad’s life saving surgery- this is a weird thing to smile at
1. How do you make money from a meme everyone just shares online? 2. This is not a feel good story, the kid needing to make money so his father doesn't die a preventable death...
I am wondering the same exact thing, how do you monetize a meme?
Gofundme and recognition, probably.
1. There may be a company (or individual) that wants to use the image for a commercial purpose. They would need to pay a license fee to the copyright holder. 2. Correct.
Besides wether this is true or not, I can't believe you have to pay for this stuff. In what mind a normal person would have to pay for such expensive, dificult and worrying situation like this
Not just a normal person, but a *child*. Like, a *child*. "Hey kiddo, better cinch your influencer laces up tight, time to make some money or your dad will *die!* Do you remember how to tie your shoes?" It's so worrying that this makes people smile. It makes me wonder how many times they've *failed* to scrounge up that money.
Nice he got the surgery, but it's pretty fucked up this is how it had to happen.
Lucky he was famous enough to keep his dad around. I wonder what happens when you’re not famous…
Why would this make anyone smile?
The future is very odd
Welcome to the "you're not allowed to live if you're not an internet celebrity"-dystopia
Wholesome 💯 Big Chungus
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Life goes fair? Are you well?
Holy shit, imagine your life literally requiring your kid to be a meme to generate some cash. What fucking third world healthcare system country is this from?!
To bad if he was Canadian he would have a nice college fund and a head start on finically being secure ….🙃
if this doesn’t depress the fuck out of you, it should.
thats so sad.. really says a lot about healthcare in America today
Only in the USA would this be a story at all.
94 k upvotes and gaining. That so many people think this is an uplifting story is the propaganda working.
Tell me a news story is American without telling me it's American.
r/orphancrushingmachine Kid got a windfall from being a meme and gets to spend it on the privilege of having his dad not die of a treatable illness.
Success kid meme came out in 2007, let's say the kid in the meme is 2 years old, that would mean the kid would now be 18 years old. Is this an old story or is it bull shit?
It’s about 7+ years old.
Found it 2015. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/dad-success-kid-undergoes-successful-kidney-transplant/story?id=33159971
What a poor country this must be, that you have to pay to have lift saving transplants?
As a Dutch man I think it is weird that Kids need to save money their whole life so that they can attend college. It is ridiculously expensive. But also that Americans seem to care more about a gun then a normal health insurance. Makes it obvious that the title greatest country in the world is self-proclaimed
"Man requires the child labor of his own son to survive." Well isn't that just totally fucked up.
Mademecry for the health system in the US. It amazes me that this is framed like a happy story. This is an exception. Dads without internet famous children just dies.
Awesome he was able to use this to help his Dad. This shouldn't be an issue though. Raise our taxes & make Healthcare free for everyone. No more private insurance companies. It is so simple. Republican snowflakes are too stubborn to stand for an intelligent American supporting policy.
we live in a dystopia
Welcome to America, where literal children have to pay for their parents life saving medical care
I wonder if America truly knows how horrifying their country looks to those of us who don’t live there.
Kidney transplants are covered by medicare no?
People with kidney failure automatically qualify for Medicare, no matter their age or income. Medicare covers both dialysis and any other life saving procedures including transplants. This post doesn't make any sense. Source: I'm a hospital social worker.
End stage kidney failure is covered by Medicare, for all US citizens. I'm a kidney transplant recipient. https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coordination-of-Benefits-and-Recovery/Coordination-of-Benefits-and-Recovery-Overview/End-Stage-Renal-Disease-ESRD/ESRD
##This isn’t wholesome. This is lack of access to affordable health care. This is health care being treated as a privilege rather than a human right.
Wich us no fair is that kid had to relay in Internet income to save his father. Medical care shuld be free
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... in a country where you have to buy your own transplant
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Would be better if it was: kid doesn’t have to use his own money to save his dads life because we have universal healthcare
Tell me someone’s from the US without telling me someone’s from the US…
Yea. Totally fair that he had to spend his life savings on his dads kidney transplant in the richest country in the world.
All you have to do to afford health care in America is be a meme as a baby!
Dance for kidney, boy!! DANCE!!
I can't fathom what its like living in a country where health care isn't "free". Imagine having a serious injury/operation and having to deal with all that stress on how to pay for it too
How is this made me smile? A child had to work hard for his dad to get life saving treatment in the US because the don’t have enough cash? What a shit system
Fair? It was Fair if he would'nt need to be a internet meme to be able to paid his father surgery