DJ Calvert told BBC News NI: “I’ve been let down - and I’m not the only one.”
It was proof that Northern Ireland’s health and social care system had “crashed”, said the 49-year-old.
Billionaires exist and this poor man can’t get a goddamn health care worker.
At all levels of government we’re (worldwide) making due with less while these fucking parasites grow.
Shit is going to get ugly in the next few decades…
Eat the rich, problem solves itself.
I’ll argue that you only need to eat five rich. The first two will be shocking, the next two will be surprising that they were eaten despite all the security measures, the fifth being eaten is the reminder that the rich will be eaten.
You’ve taken care of like, 50% of the billionaires parasite issue with those 5, the remaining few will suddenly decide that social welfare programs are a good idea and donate so much that they are no longer billionaires.
Eat the rich and more rich pop up. It takes more than just “let’s get rid of who we think the sole problem is and everything will turn out fine”. The rich didn’t just appear from a vacuum, they’ve accumulated power and wealth for centuries, if not millennia. “Eating the rich” would require vastly more fundamental changes than just grabbing goods from the nearest billionaire and tossing at “the poors”.
Lol Eat the rich is a euphemism for killing them…not just taking their wealth.
No. Dine upon the flesh of the rich. Consume their nutrients so that you may absorb their power.
The problem is that value is derived from property rather than from work. You earn substantially more by owning a machine than by operating that machine, which rewards people who have money more than people who have skills.
Yes but their is not real answer to that. Even comunism where people own the means of production. Turns into a state where the leaders of that state make more money owning the machines then the workers on those machines.
Any system will always result in a cost to start the industry be it land in the past. Machines in the present or AI in the future. Those who have the resources to provide work for others will always have some form of power. And power will always lead to corruption.
All differing political stratagies do is change the process for gaining that power.
Humanity would probably have to eliminate psycho/sociopathic behavior. Something like 1% of humanity (much higher rate in billionaire and CEO populations, like 25%+).
Like you said, designing a system that prevents them from taking control without pretty draconian measures that are likely to catch many false positives (and still be evaded by skilled psycho/sociopaths) seems pretty difficult.
Maybe AI will be able to filter them out of the population, but that’s full of moral and ethical pitfalls too.
Turns into a state where the leaders of that state make more money owning the machines then the workers on those machines.
Except not really. Corruption is a problem but corruption happens in bourgeois democracy too, the overwhelmingly main source of wealth extraction that we can eliminate is surplus labor value extraction brought about by property relations. State socialism cuts away a massive problem while still retaining smaller ones.
I’d like to propose for maximum psychological impact they should be literally eaten using whatever gold plated dishware and diamond knives they’ve got laying around.
Why do we keep saying ‘eat the rich’?
Just take their wealth and give it to those who need it. It is literally that simple.
Make them part of the working class. It’s a fate worse than death in their eyes.
Thats… literally what eat the rich means
That’s figuratively what eat the rich means.
Dammit I’m a FOOL i’m never going to have SEX now
Don’t worry. Stick with me, I’ll teach you all the pedantry you need to trick some idiot’s pants off.
The problem is it’s just a phrase. You can keep repeating it ad nauseam, but unless it comes with actual strategies to complete a goal… it’s as meaningless a phrase as all the rhetoric that right-wingers throw around. And they’re much better at it.
Bringing out the guillotine again.
I read the headline thinking ‘so what else is new’ and then realized they weren’t talking about the US. Here it wouldn’t be news at all.
Over the past while, our government has essentially turned our welfare system into a parody of the US’s. This guy makes the most amazing Lego sculptures, and it’s so fucking sad he’s going through this.
Capitalists are all greedy scum. I desperately wish the world realized this.
They do, the problem is the ones in power are all in on it.
I dunno’, I still hear far too many people simping for the rich believing they all personally earned their riches and I hear far too many people still believing “capitalism” is just using money to buy things.
Ignorance is alive and well.
Yep.
I had a construction worker try to explain to me how Elon Musk is a genius who makes it possible for me to do my job (I work in the Space Industry, NOT for SpaceX) and I should be grateful he’s creating those opportunities for me instead of hating on him. He got really mad about it when I didn’t agree.
He got even angrier when I asked him why someone like him, on the lowest rung of the labor ladder, was simping like that. He had no answer though.
This is Northern Ireland. We don’t have a government at the moment. not saying the Tories haven’t fucked it over. But there is more to it.
The sad thing is in the US its extremely likely the fellow would have already been dead after years living on the streets with a cardboard sign.
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You can survive easy out here if you can stay sober enough to make a few phone calls and show up to appointments. Most of the homeless crisis is really just a drug crisis.
I trust that in order to make such such a generalizing and dismissive statement you have some form of qualification or primary experience?
Yes. I get free healthcare, and I qualify for free food and low income housing. Many of my friends have been homeless and they have had an easy time finding a shelter.
Fair enough then, not going to argue with your own experience.
You sure were getting geared up to put him in his place though, huh? I’m going to just start telling people like you “thank you for your service “
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A man born without hands or legs has been told he will soon no longer get a daily visit from a care worker to help him shower and get dressed.
It added that it understood “the worry it is causing”, and would “seek an alternative provider” that would “support him to continue living independently in his own home”.
His care is provided by Connected Health but that is due to end on 1 December, with the company telling BBC News NI that it was “increasingly stretched in ever more demanding circumstances”.
Mr Calvert’s friend Vicky has been making additional visits to help four days a week but now that looks to be the only assistance he will get.
Mr Calvert’s mother, Heather, said she “just couldn’t believe it” when she heard that her son was losing his care package.
She told Evening Extra that over the past seven months the situation surrounding DJ’s care has been “a rollercoaster”.
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God, I need to get out of here.
did he vote for brexit?
My dad in his 79 years of wisdom told me a few years back about brexit ( we have been in Canada since the 70s)
“It’s just a roundabout way to say we don’t like brown people”
I still stick by that. Succinct.
mind boggeling that sunak yesterday stood infront of a sign saying “boats must be stopped”.
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