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[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

It's like when North Korea threatens to nuke us once a year, so we send them rice.

The NHS just wants more funding, and threats like this is unfortunately the best way to guarantee that funding.

Just like when the federal agencies blow up a trailer in the middle of nowhere to justify expanded federal terrorism budgets.

[–]RuckFeddit 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I think it's more the push for privatization of the NHS. The NHS has been in a bad state for a long time and officials act as if their hands are tied.

[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Stakeholder capitalism.

[–]RuckFeddit 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

That's another term I was unaware of. Yeah that's it. Like Deutsche Bahn in Germany, where are you going to point the finger at a 50/50 private government owned company? it's a total conflict of interest especially in this day and age.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, exactly. Also, with the current credit based debt system the US runs on, their will always be cyclical doldrums and economic crises. But the most saddening of things is that stakeholders must create new, parasitic niche markets to keep the economy afloat with each passing manufactured crisis.

Debt and personhood now becomes a commodity through data-pharming personal information and Impact vs. values scores.