They seem to think everything just comes easy, everything is obtainable. I was just reading a thread on reddit about a woman who screams non stop at her son and takes all her frustrations out on him and all of reddit are like “She needs to get therapy, for a long time, maybe years, maybe permanently.” Like, what the hell? Who on earth could even afford that? Do they all just have endless money? Even if you live in a country with socialised healthcare you normally have to spend ages on a waiting list for a short course of therapy. Who are all these millionaires who think everyone can just be in therapy permanently? Whenever anyone has a problem the reddit answer is always “Therapy, now!” With no thought at all about whether the person can access or pay for that.
I’ve noticed this with other things on reddit too. There was once a reddit thread where people were asking why poor people buy takeaway food and how they can’t be poor if they buy it. I spoke on there about how I’d been in a situation where I was living in a bedsit, had run out of money, only had a few pounds left. There was no money left on my gas or electric meter. I could either put my last few pounds on the meter, or I could buy food, but then with no gas or electric I wouldn’t be able to cook any food. So my only option was to buy some cheap ready cooked food like chips from the fish and chip shop. Some really rude redditors refused to believe this, saying no-one is ever in that situation. They are so dissociated from reality they really don’t even believe people can be so poor they have to choose between utilities or food.
I’ve see other threads where someone posts photos of a medical condition they have, asking what it could be. When told to go to the doctor they say they have no medical insurance, no money to pay, etc and the others are like “Just go, this could be serious.” Like OK, just materialise money out of thin air then. It’s like they think everyone actually has an emergency fund but just doesn’t want to dip into it. It makes me think there’s no hope for humanity, when so many people are like this, not even wanting to believe how poor other people are, there will never be enough appetite for change to actually change things.
on this one in particular it’s worth riding out the harassment for debt collectors for 7 years or going through the formal bankruptcy process if it means you don’t die of something. the advice usually also comes with giving a fake name at an emergency room so they have a harder time finding you to try to collect on the bill you can’t pay.
Is that even possible? when I go to the hospital, they ask name, date of birth, address etc, I don’t see how you can just give a fake name. Also it’s debatable whether bankruptcy is better than death, depends on your current circumstances. I’d choose death at this stage of my life.
I used to work in the er. I would tell my patients to just put their ssn in wrong on purpose sometimes. Fuck management you know
specifically to misuse the emergency room. you’re not going to get regular care through that method but you might get an x-ray or an inflamed appendix out. might be a US thing, we have our underclass of people who even still don’t always have ID.
They collect ID up front.
They are notbsllowed to turn people away, and most hospital staff could not begin to care about managemnt ideas
turning out my pockets “i don’t have one”