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[–] [email protected] 144 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Time to find employment that doesn't involve being a soul-sucking leech on society.

[–] jackoneill 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right? If you work for insurance you are the problem

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah because a comrade starving is really gonna show those capitalist.

[+] jackoneill -20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you can’t get a job that actually helps society then you can get the fuck out of it

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Found the guy who's never not had options

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not meant to be dismissive but this maybe the best paying job for ops area/experience. They may not have the means to get a better job. While I understand the need to actually contribute to society. Starving to achieve that isn't going to help anyone.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're describing an industry that exists to employ people desperate enough to abuse other people like it's a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I never described the industry in anyway. But if that's what you read, ok.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Damn bro you mean people need money to survive???

You mean because money reigns above all people who have none will take jobs they normally wouldn't because they're fucking starving???

Almost like we should take care of the poor so they won't have to take these parasitic jobs (which are created by parasitic people at the top not the bottom) and can survive???

Take your "altruistic" bullshit somewhere where people can survive comfortably on the bare minimum.

And since those places barely exist outside of small areas I would say please hold your breath. That way at least a piece of shit dies instead of someone who performed the crime of being born poor

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd starve before harming others like that, and on more than one occasion in life I've opted the course that was more damaging to myself because of that reason. Pity you're too selfish to say the same. I'm going to go ahead and block you though because you've shown me clearly that I don't want to read anything you have to say, so thanks for that at least. Good luck with figuring out how not to be human garbage.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cheers loser. Hope you enjoy your little bubble!

Can't wait till it's popped and you're left scrambling for food scraps.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most jobs do nothing to actually help society. Our society is not designed towards the benefit of the many but towards the generation of capital. Those sometimes overlap, but usually they don't.

[+] [email protected] -13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What? You don't like the free market?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If what we've seen is actually the free market, then no.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The free market is one idea, but how about legislation to force insurance companies to pay out for illnesses that natural born human beings get and stop screwing Americans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then it wouldn't be a free market, what are you some kind of commie?!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The free market is supposed to be about competition, that's why basically every industry in the US is made up of 3-5 mega corps that collude together to fuck Americans.

Insurance industry is like a 500m sprint where every runner has agreed to only walk. Hence nobody has better service, no innovation, costs are high and customers lose out.

[–] Eheran 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does that have to do with free market?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The free market is what incentivises you to be a "soul sucking leech on society". Toddlers not getting insurance payouts for their cancer is a feature of it! :)

[–] Eheran -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So all other current and past forms of market system did not have people getting payed for doing evil shit? That is a very bold claim. Just looking at places like China or north Korea today is enough to show just how far from reality that is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's obviously a strawman you dunce. Although it's funny you mentioned China as they have socialised healthcare, so yeah, toddlers actually aren't getting sold out by insurance providers there.

[–] Eheran 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is it a strawman? What else was the point if not what I rephrased? Instead of correcting me, all you say is essentially "your are wrong".

As for China: They lock people upand let them burn in their homes because they want no COVID. They give absolutely zero shit about any random toddler. The only thing China cares about is their image.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's quite simple, I never said: "All other current and past forms of market system did not have people getting payed for doing evil shit" I simply said that the free market incentivises bad behaviour. Do you see the difference?

As for China, those burnt up toddlers still aren't being denied health insurance! So this just seems like a reductive, sensationalist example of "whataboutism".

[–] Eheran 0 points 1 year ago

So it has something to do with free market, but also happens in other market forms and also unrelated to market forms?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i worked in tech support and we were told off for eating crisps (chips for the americans) while on the phone to clients.

i will help resolve your tech issues with my dorito fingers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Related IT Crowd scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rksCTVFtjM4

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

so specific. probably happened

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health-insurance-rejection-claims

Considering this article talks about automed denial without a case review by doctors, most definitely.

[–] Boozilla 10 points 1 year ago

Thank you for posting this. This tactic isn't new. It's been a common practice for decades. Bury the customer under paperwork and rejections hoping they give up.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Seems like a home made slice of reality, maybe even a selfie from the moment they thought to make a meme.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I used to work insurance claims support for a major national pharmacy chain.

I’ve gotten this call, several times.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MERICA!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

America was built on a pile of dead children.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, do the world a favour my dude: punch your boss right in the kisser

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I mean, there are better ways to get into prison you know

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried assaulting your boss and restarting your superhero career?

[–] CADmonkey 1 points 1 year ago

Or at least posting their address for everyone? Or posting an insider's guide on how to game the insurance company.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think you meant to post this to dank memes