Boomers aren't very popular for plenty or reasons, but aged care is flush with cash and pay their staff shit, and treat the ailing as consumables - the quicker they die the quicker they can get another body into their spot and grift more.

[–] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 12 points 2 years ago

All this crap shouldn't even have been privatised in the first place. The recent Royal Commission should've demonstrated that. Essential healthcare shouldn't be left up to for-profit companies.

[+] RoadkillUgly@aussie.zone -6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Should the wealthy pay more fore everything?

Fancy car? Extra $2 per litre to fill it, extra $500 for a service (you can afford it)

Expensive clothes? Extra 50% tariff on dining out.

High income? 50% loading on electricity and gas, groceries, haircuts etc.

Obvious and obligatory / s

I am not rich by any means (I have a car I pulled from a paddock and fixed, my clothes are from big w and opshops) but I dont begrudge those who have accumulated wealth, other than those who have done it by dodging taxes or by rorting the system.

Maybe instead of stinging the rich to make others rich encourage philanthropy to lift up the least fortunate in society.

[–] jonesy@aussie.zone 12 points 2 years ago

"Perhaps if we give the rich even more money they will be more inclined to share that wealth with those below them, it'll definitely work this time guys"

[–] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Personally I believe charity to be an extremely inefficient way of distributing help. You're essentially asking for numerous services with duplicated administration overheads that may even not provide their services equally. A more efficient way of spending money on care would be taxing the wealthy to expand government services.

[–] Majoof@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I don't completely disagree with you. I don't think charities in developed nations are an effective use of money for the reasons you described and tax is probably a better mechanism.

But I would encourage you to look up effective altruism and specifically the book "the life you can save" by Peter Singer (perhaps Australia's greatest intellectual export)

[–] TiredSpider@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago

Don't threaten us with a good time.

[–] billytheid@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

those people aren't the ones we need to be taxing... our corporate tax system is a shambles