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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
truism means that it's TRUE all the time. I have been hospitalized 3 times, total of 7 days, 7 days, 1 day. I'm not in the poor house and I have this horrible private insurance. I chose to work for a corporate company that provides benefits. Ohhh the soul sucking corporations!!!! well, you make choices and you live with those consequences of those choices, my soul may be sucked out, but I got health insurance.
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But dude. You live quite comfortably
in Manhattan. Please don't extrapolate from your financial situation to that of all Americans.
For instance, take me. I'm currently unemployed. I've carried private insurance since being laid off in 2004, and since that time I've done enough freelance work to keep myself and my family housed and keep my (absurdly expensive) insurance paid, among other things. When my last contract gig ended about six weeks ago, I earned the last dollar I've earned since then. I've been job hunting HARD--up to and including finding out this morning that I didn't land the job I interviewed for yesterday. Not a big surprise, it wasn't a great fit, but still, it sucks.
So I'm not crying over you selling your soul. I'd fucking LOVE to sell mine, but right now, nobody's buying souls with my background.
From inside your world view, you are the harder working of us. You're the more moral, the more deserving. To that I say a RESOUNDING:
Fuck you.
You've got no idea what it's like out here. Don't you DARE tell me you "choose" to work for a corporation. For some of us, that's not a choice that's available. And yes, I take your flippancy about this GOD DAMN PERSONALLY.
What happens when I can't afford to pay both my mortgage and my insurance payment, which is the situation I'm facing
next week? What then, Cynthetiq? You're the wise moral hard worker for whom luck doesn't play any factor. Tell me what I should do. Because I really honestly don't know.