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 @baseballcrank
Nobody really conflates wages with profits. Profits accrue to business owners.
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Replying to @yeselson
This is a false distinction. Consider doctors: often you pay a professional corporation that is wholly owned by the doc, for tax reasons. Is that in your view a completely different thing than paying the doctor directly for services?
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Replying to @baseballcrank @yeselson
i think if there was a health care worker like a doctor who was in a position to increase prices at scale to increase his/her wages, and then said "ah, profit" Bernie Sanders probably would include that person in the group described by the tweet.
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Replying to @williamjordann @yeselson
Increasing prices when possible is what everyone in a market does, businesses & labor alike. If nurses strike for higher wages, they are increasing prices of their labor at scale via application of collective power. Bad?
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Replying to @baseballcrank @yeselson
I mean this dynamic is... the point. If people felt like nurse wages being too high was at the heart of America's health care spending problems I am guessing you would hear more about it.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @yeselson
Believed, understood, whatever? Not to say the industries are morally comparable but your logic suggests by criticizing tobacco execs for "profiting off human suffering" I should be admonished for attacking the guy at the 7-11?
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I think you see why that analogy is bad.
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