Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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If you know that you have an illness, and don't tell your insurance company, then you're a fraudster. If you know you have a genetic predisposition to illness, that's no different.
Discrimination is not inherently a bad thing.
it’s always fucking unsettling when the orange site goes almost entirely mask off about how they consider folks with hereditary diseases to be genetically inferior (and it happens a lot)
Wouldn't there be a negative feedback loop where the genetically prone to illness can only get crap insurance and due to crap healthcare die younger and live more unhealthy years, which makes them poorer? And their kids can also only get crap insurance due to loss of generational wealth and/or inherited disease until eventually family members are dying of diseases of poverty?
And a positive feedback loop for the healthy middle classes, whose sick kids get improved care?
Yes, it would be a return to the 19th century Gilded Age, which seems to be the ideal for these people.
and would they ever hypothesise any of this (having to report anything) happening to them? no way, impossibru
Like always, checking the commenting history of a hackernews like this usually turns up more hidden ~~gems~~ turds.
This seems naive. We live in a society, and clearly lots of people depend on those companies for all sorts of things.
If Google disappeared, millions of businesses would lose access to their Google Docs. Many would go out of business.
If TSMC disappeared, then we might go back to 2015 in semiconductor technology for new laptops and phones... Oh well? Were computers so awful in 2015?
is this person fucking real?