Pain for Profit
By: AlyssaImagine the worst pain you've ever had
Now imagine it never went away
No doctors visit
No consoling family member or friend to comfort you
No one to take you to the doctor
This is something I have trouble imagining
Any time I have been sick I have had someone to help me
Get medicine for me, take me to a doctor, be with me for recovery
Sure there were monetary worries, but nothing we couldn't handle.
My dad's good paying job had good insurance.
What type of world do we live in where companies profit from people's pain?
Where companies can deny or put years of debt on someone for something that happens to each and every human being: the body growing sick.
Who looked at humans and analyzed when they were the weakest and said, "Let's build upon this--the lowest point a person can be. How can we maximize their suffering to maximize business?"
People have come along the way and tried to end the system in which this mentality was built on and have failed. Why would anyone question the status quo?
It is too tempting to profit over feeling pain.
Too easy to love money over a person.
We are too busy worrying about our next campaign.
But imagine that you were the one who could not find relief from an unbearable pain.
Is that a world in which you could survive?
End: 12:49 a.m.
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