You magnificent bastard.

Hollow teeth and tartar, cuz when it rains it pours - fiddy

"Merit can be whatever I say it is" - The Bourgeois~___~

It is meritocratic.... for high quality organic beings.

Whose fault is it that stupid peasants assumed they were included?

Coincidentally accurate comment for me. Just had a tooth that I had grown very fond over the years removed and left vacant because of the cost associated with replacing it rivaling that of cars I've bought in the past. As the teeth shift and get loose because of the missing soldier, I'll just have to allow them to fall out or have them pulled until I can have dentures made up.

I have dental insurance, it's just none of that necessary tooth replacement if you want to keep the rest of your teeth stuff is covered.

It tends to lead to societal collapse eventually, but at least a tiny percentage of people are having a good time right now!

I came to the comments section just to see if anyone had posted Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

There are people who are convinced that the reason our healthcare is so expensive is because we "subsidize healthcare for the rest of the world." They live in this version of reality where exorbitant salaries of CEOs and dividends in the healthcare and drug industries are somehow not the cause of insulin creeping past $100/vial

Because us Americans have been taught that this is how it is. And unfortunately only one side wants to change this.

Never fun thing when I have to leave a job and I lose my health insurance for the reason I’ve just losing a job. Or I can pay full amount for the insurance after I leave like $800 a month for one person.

The real answer is that Americans conservatives genuinely hate the poor, and will happily double their own healthcare costs if it means denying poor people access to care. They will fight tooth and nail to preserve the system that rich white Americans can afford, but poor black people can't.

The pentagon, mostly.

Turns out humans are kind of awful. If you under-educate them enough and then feed them propaganda they'll believe almost anything. Also they're really resistant to change. Not a great combination of factors. You might have noticed their adverse effect on the climate lately...

For our taxes we get war in nine countries at the same time.

And not only that, our government has managed to spend more than 100 billion on another country's war too.

98% of the voting public in America thinks you're not entitled to anything you can't put cash down for. It's insane, but that's how we vote every two years.

Don't worry, when they become major repairs that you still can't afford, you'll start getting fines that you can't afford! And then your house will eventually be foreclosed on, and bought for pennies that you can't afford. And then you won't have to worry about it anymore!

Federal minimum wage and state minimum wage are mostly vastly different. Feel free to fact check.

I do not disagree with your underlying point, but at least be accurate.

Hence why the minimum wage has been stuck at $7 in the US for fifteen years, no matter who we elect.

There are 30 states + DC that have minimum wage higher than the $7.25/hour of the Federal Minimum wage. Cities can also have a higher minimum wage than the state, so that would be possibly hundreds of cites/towns with higher than Federal Minimum wage. So I guess it does matter who you elect. Pay attention to the down ballot. Its not all Washington DC's job. Fix your locality. Fix your State.