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The World and its Priorities
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Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#61 - 2012-12-12 19:13:32 UTC
as a surgical worker and someone who has experienced personal loss due to cancer (my mom Sad) and who sees on a near daily basis the greed of the health care industry, HMO's and pharmaceutical companies, i truly believe that even if we COULD cure or eradicate cancer...it would never happen on a large scale.

there's simply no money in it.

when a person is diagnosed with cancer, from that moment on, for the rest of their lives they will be dependent on treatment, medication, screenings and tests of all sorts. even if they achieve remission they will constantly have to be vigilant through tumor marker screenings and check ups for life. if they don't achieve remission, people will pour everything they have into trying to do so until they die.

on average 1 in 3 americans (for example) will acquire some type of cancer in their lifetime. this generates billions in revenue a year for the industry. if we simply cured or eradicated cancer...

poof!

no more revenue.
Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#62 - 2012-12-12 21:53:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Telegram Sam
Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:
Once upon a time Mad Max was looking like a bleak future.


Now I can watch it, and The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2 for the rest of you) and think "Hey, at least they have some chance to control their future".


No more electronics? Good. No more news propaganda, electronic voting machines, and surveillance grid.

No more supermarkets? Good. No more GMO, no more poison.

No more hospitals? Good. No more vaccines with cancer viruses and heavy metals in them, no more medical-industrial complex.

No more police? Good - no more thugs with a license to kill doing all of the human trafficking and drug dealing and crimes they claim to "protect and serve" us from, no more risk of being beaten up by one of these fat tax feeders for their own enjoyment and charged with assaulting them.

No more military? Good. No more total war, no more empire, no more DU everywhere.

No more municipal water services? Good. No more sodium flouride making everybody a freaking tard who can put up with everything I already listed.

No more roads? Good. No more central planning and zoning having each half of a county working on the opposite half and making oil barons rich.

No government? Good. No organized crime.

No more EvE Online? So what. In the real world, permadeath will be the end of gate camps and finite resources (without government to aid monopolies) means no more big alliance NAP fest.


The economics of "Mad Max" is widely misunderstood though. Such a condition as depicted would not last forever, so imagine a world without what I have listed, and having it's priorities straightened out, a human race unfettered and free. I see the last of the Interceptors and know that beyond that the future is bright.


Yeah, seems like pushing the Earth's reset button wouldn't be a bad thing, in the long run. Would be pretty rough in the interim, though. Like Europe's Dark Ages, except now people don't know how to farm, hunt, tan, spin, craft, smith, etc.