• ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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    Assuming you could wave a magic wand and convert their net worth straight into cash 1:1 (you can’t), you couldn’t even do the last thing on that list, much less all the others:

    Assuming in the US, using 2023 figures:

    • Total combined net worth of all billionaires (remember, you can only “take all their money” one time): $5.2 trillion
    • Total annual healthcare cost: $4.9 trillion

    Too many people have been deluded into believing that ‘the billionaires’ are capable of easily solving all societal ills if only they gave away their wealth, and aren’t they such assholes for keeping their wealth and not solving them?

    Most people are not nearly aware of the actual costs of these things.

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      4.9 trillion assuming you’re paying everything through the corrupt, extortionate gringo system.

      Actually civilized countries like China and Cuba manage to give universal healthcare to their citizens at a much, much cheaper cost per capita, and without the horrible deficiencies of US healthcare, all under international embargo in the case of Cuba.

      Also, really convenient how y’all bootlickers are all about passive income but you pretend assets are going to become cash and nothing else, not to mention the fact that the government can literally print dollars and keep the currency stable as long as industrial output and taxation is well managed.

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      Contrary to the other commenter, I AM trying to say you’re wrong. Universal healthcare is very much possible, see every actually developed country! They even managed to do it without the molten lead thing, though I’m sure it would help.

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        see every actually developed country

        and a lot of developing countries, Algeria which had a literacy rate of 3% had universal healthcare in the 70s, 10 years of not being a settler colony

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          Libya too before 2011 (except the literacy rate was recorded to be 89 to 99% at one point)!

          not to mention the fact that that the “developed” countries depend heavily on the exploitation of the Global South to provide free/universal healthcare, yes European reader reading this, this includes Finland and no Poland isn’t excluded either.

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              of course they did, anything so much as hints at providing welfare services that isn’t born out of imperialism is a threat to their imperialism… so they needed to make an example out of Libyans by turning it into a sex slave trading hub.

              يلعن شكلهم

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      Total annual healthcare cost: $4.9 trillion

      Guess why that number is so much higher per capita, than it is in countries with universal healthcare.

      Also, spending their money isn’t the only benefit to boiling them in lead. You also get the benefit of them not using that money to corrupt democracy, or fund propaganda designed to turn the working class against itself.

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      I’m not trying to say you’re completely off base here, but that $4.9 trillion would drop pretty significantly under a universal health care system

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      Total annual healthcare cost: $4.9 trillion

      That would be $12K /person. That’s a lot. That really shows the inefficiency of the US healthcare system, not the inevitable cost of healthcare.