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 …
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Replying to @yeselson
Net of expenses, they are - like profits, they are payment for value added.
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Replying to @Seth_Brown_Cow @yeselson
Are you suggesting they are not paid, or that they do not help people with problems?
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Replying to @baseballcrank @Seth_Brown_Cow
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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Being obtuse to own the libs
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