Who "profits off human suffering"? -Every doctor & nurse -Every cop & fireman -Every social worker & therapist -Everyone who makes live-saving medicines In short, anyone who's paid - even by Medicare/Medicaid! - to help people deal w/sickness, death, accidents, crime.https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1109821811988938752 …
Are you suggesting they are not paid, or that they do not help people with problems?
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I’m suggesting that those who conflate the wages of individual providers with corporate profits do so in bad faith
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This is a conclusion mixed with an ad hominem in lieu of an actual argument.
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I’m suggesting that profits accrue to capital and wages accrue to employees. And everybody understands that and everybody understands that’s what Sanders means, whether you agree with his policies or not. He’s talking about de-commodifying public goods.
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Except that when you admit that, his argument no longer has any force. The idea that it is immoral to make money from suffering is either equally true of profits & wages, or equally false.
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