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Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by fjsolwmv »

throwawaycloud wrote: post #46
ridgewell wrote: post #12

>We excluded all Canadians. They already have universal healthcare. They’ll be fine. Yikes. I certainly got a laugh out of that, then an overly reflective period of what I'm grateful for, especially the benefits afforded from being north of the border.

Throwaway for privacy. I've been concealing cancer symptoms for years, mostly because I can't afford to get a colonoscopy. Even the cheapest clinics run well over $1k, which is totally out of reach. The secondary reason is an unhealthy fear of needles and a desire to live without a colostomy bag. I know I need to see a psychiatrist or a therapist to help me get over these irrational fears, but you guessed it: I can't…

Are you sure they are cancer symptoms? Seems you be dead by now if you and them untreated for so long.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by [deleted] »

FLGMwt wrote: post #31

Oh hey, on top of the prevalent skepticism and detractions in the current discussion, I'll just throw out that, on its own, this is objectively a Good Thing. I won't dismiss the fact that this is good PR for CAH, but it is still morally-motivated positive impact for some fixed number of people. A company took some profit they had and exceptionally distributed to some of their less fortunate customers. Don't immediate…

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Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by kaitai »

throwawaycloud wrote: post #46
ridgewell wrote: post #12

>We excluded all Canadians. They already have universal healthcare. They’ll be fine. Yikes. I certainly got a laugh out of that, then an overly reflective period of what I'm grateful for, especially the benefits afforded from being north of the border.

Throwaway for privacy. I've been concealing cancer symptoms for years, mostly because I can't afford to get a colonoscopy. Even the cheapest clinics run well over $1k, which is totally out of reach. The secondary reason is an unhealthy fear of needles and a desire to live without a colostomy bag. I know I need to see a psychiatrist or a therapist to help me get over these irrational fears, but you guessed it: I can't…

Consider a fecal occult blood test -- much cheaper than colonoscopy, has the same impact on mortality on a population level, non-invasive. If you get a "positive" on it you might be able to access care somehow.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by fjsolwmv »

adwf wrote: post #56
eutectic wrote: post #2

Why only consider within-country inequality (and, yes, I realize that the answer is 'because it's partly a publicity stunt, and humans are biased and parochial')? The average American is incomparable wealthy compared to the average African, and you can on average save a life for only a few $thousand to one of Givewell's top recommended charities.

Because people have a natural tendency to give when they have plenty. A poor person can spare little, a comfortably off person can spare more. If you really want to increase the charitable givings of a population, decreasing wealth disparity and making more people feel comfortable about their finances (ie. redistributing wealth), is a pragmatic way to do it. The more I have, the more I give. The more the general popu…

That has nothing to do with a choice to give money to cah customers vs the global poorest.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by cipherzero »

rocqua wrote: post #42

This is a great thing. Truly, hats of too cards against humanity. I noticed something worrying about myself when reading these stories. A small voice in the back of my head judged a lot of these people. Those who say they will use it for gifts, travel or other things I apparently deem frivolous. It is not okay of me to think these things. These people deserve happiness, and these people can make their own choices. Th…

I had the same moment of introspection... I remember thinking “you want to spend this money on gifts or car tires?”

And then I realized that these are the things they’re stressing about. It’s nice to think those will be one less stressor in a life full of stressful things. Which I think is good - if only for the mental win of not having to worry about X.

Way to go CAH - you got me thinking. And this time it wasn’t about something I had to go look up on urban dictionary.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by throwawaycloud »

fjsolwmv wrote: post #71
throwawaycloud wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Throwaway for privacy. I've been concealing cancer symptoms for years, mostly because I can't afford to get a colonoscopy. Even the cheapest clinics run well over $1k, which is totally out of reach. The secondary reason is an unhealthy fear of needles and a desire to live without a colostomy bag. I know I need to see a psychiatrist or a therapist to help me get over these irrational fears, but you guessed it: I can't…

Are you sure they are cancer symptoms? Seems you be dead by now if you and them untreated for so long.

Nope, I have no idea what the blood is from. I can't afford to see a doctor. :) TMI below, so stop reading.

Before I switched diets a month ago, I had blood about 80% of the time. It's ... Mixed in, and dark, as opposed to bright red and on the surface. Meaning whatever it is, it's deep inside my intestinal tract.

Since a month ago I've seen it only once. I'm holding out hope it's just a stomach ulcer or some weird thing involving sugar. Cutting that crap completely seemed to help.

But that's homeopathy, not medicine. I need to get scoped out to figure out what's up.

Those needles though...

https://scottgriddle.com/blog/dealing-with-my-needle-make-th...

https://medium.com/@sgriddle/im-35-and-i-may-suddenly-have-l...

I read that and think "I'd rather die of cancer," but then I read about what it's like and realize it's just a mental hangup. Pretty powerful one though. I think the author probably delayed getting checked for similar reasons.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by fjsolwmv »

jquery wrote: post #53
geofft wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If charity works great, why doesn't government-mandated charity work even better? There are a lot of things, like civil defense and firefighting and road building, that historically started working more reliably when they became government-run instead of depending on volunteers or private industry. What makes charity different?

Because socialism has been proven to fail, over and over and over. Roads are not socialism. Roads have not destroyed societies like Venezuela or Cuba. Socialism is when the government decides private property is illegitimate and it fails every time it’s tried. Some amount of socialism may not kill the host but it’s a thing to be feared and wielded carefully not lauded.

Banana and cotton plantations are capitalism. The US is wealthy because it extracted it's wealth from the suffering of others worldwide.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by electrograv »

FLGMwt wrote: post #31

Oh hey, on top of the prevalent skepticism and detractions in the current discussion, I'll just throw out that, on its own, this is objectively a Good Thing. I won't dismiss the fact that this is good PR for CAH, but it is still morally-motivated positive impact for some fixed number of people. A company took some profit they had and exceptionally distributed to some of their less fortunate customers. Don't immediate…

> Don't immediately react and reply that this isn't scalable.

I agree that positivity is important. Certainly, let us take a moment to genuinely appreciate what they’ve done here to help 100 people!

Now, since this is such a good thing they’ve done on a small scale, let’s scale this kind of help to EVERYONE who is in need! That would be truly awesome.

Oh wait, sorry — it looks like we can’t actually have that problem-solving discussion here, because you shut down the dialog by banning the topic. What you did there — see, that is “objectively a bad thing”.

Seriously though, you cannot really expect people to shut down productive problem-solving discussion, on a forum meant for exactly that. In fact, I believe inspiring discussion and problem solving towards scaling this concept is exactly what Cards Against Humanity wants to happen as a result of this!

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by fjsolwmv »

jquery wrote: post #57
GunlogAlm wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, the old "private charity will solve all our problems" meme.

People stopped starving to death when capitalism created enough wealth that we joke about First World Problems. Socialism doesn’t stop people from starving, look at Venezuela. Look at China’s history.

Look at Native Americans history and Hawaiians history and Bhopal's history.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by Pulcinella »

rocqua wrote: post #42

This is a great thing. Truly, hats of too cards against humanity. I noticed something worrying about myself when reading these stories. A small voice in the back of my head judged a lot of these people. Those who say they will use it for gifts, travel or other things I apparently deem frivolous. It is not okay of me to think these things. These people deserve happiness, and these people can make their own choices. Th…

Yeah honestly I think it’s good that some people spent it on gifts, travel, etc. rather than spending it all on bills/debt.
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