Oof. I didn't know he died.
He was amazing on Don't Trust the B in Apt. 23.
Absolutely hilarious on that show.
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CAPITALISM!...yay?
The system is working as it's supposed to. In the future, nobody will leave inheritances except very wealthy people, because they swallowed everybody else's inheritance.
Honestly, this is exactly why inheritance should be taxed to hell and back.
I truly understand the idea of wanting to make sure your family is looked out for after you're gone. However, if governments gave a shit, about making their country truly great and something to be admired by the rest of the world, they would put the well-being of all of their citizens first and foremost by creating a social safety net that would never leave your family destitute if something happened to you.
If I die there should be no concern of who will put food on the table, or make sure my family has access to healthcare or an education in any developed country that claims greatness. Especially not one producing the kind of disgustingly oblivious bottomless pit levels of wealth responsible for some of the most justifiably hated villains in history.
If only there was some system that could allow you to pump money and resources back into your country's economy without quid pro quo private donations and business deals for public contracts...
Obviously this applies in particular to the U.S., but favoring policies that harm the many in order to help the wealthy few preserve the resources they have hoarded and obtained by exploiting others, seems to be spreading like an STD beyond the borders to many other countries that should clearly know better.
Economic Inequality Seen as Major Challenge Around the World
It's hard to say if it was ever really anything exclusive to the U.S. or if we just copied somebody else's idea and super sized it.
The Richest Man in Germany Is Worth $44 Billion. The Source of His Family Fortune? The Nazis Know.
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaire$ Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
T.L.D.R.: Inheritance tax would mean people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump don't exist. Likely Peter Thiel too, to a lesser extent, and there would be no need to worry about leaving your family a safety net because those taxes would go towards creating a safety net that ensures the basic needs of all citizens are taken care of.
Valid, great post.
However, it would be nice if regular parents and grandparents can leave their beloved possessions and assets to their offspring, and give them a little lift in the middle of their lives, and allow them to retire early, or start a business, or just grow their retirement. I would hate if the law evens the score with Oligarchs, at the expense of middle class and poor people losing out on one of the few, relatively small advantages they might get in their entire lives.
Nah, I'll just do a cost-benefit analysis whether I should get treatment or just fucking die.
At the end, when he was out of money, and going to die anyway, and about to leave his wife and six kids broke, I'll bet he wished he had ended it earlier.
You caught a downvote for that comment because some people don’t like confronting reality, but that’s literally what my late father-in-law told me on his deathbed. He had been battling cancer for about a year by that point, and was partially paralyzed around the six month mark after his vertebrae collapsed from it spreading to his bones. My wife was his constant in-home caregiver after that, while I took on a ton of overtime and freelance work to financially support both of us.
One day, I was over at his house taking care of him, because my wife needed a girl’s night for herself to just get away from things for a few moments. While I was feeding him, he broke down in tears and said he wished he had been hit by a bus instead, because at least then he would have had his dignity intact and would have been able to leave my wife some sort of inheritance. He died two days later.
I’ll never tell my wife about that conversation. She was already dealing with enough mental, emotional, and physical stress from the caregiving (and her own health issues, which the stress compounded), and I didn’t want to add to it. And now at this point, it’s better to just let sleeping dogs lie.
Fuck cancer.
At least he was able to get his guilt off his chest, kind of like confessing to a priest. He probably chose to do that with you, instead of your wife, for the same reasons as yours.
If someone asked me "How much money would you pay to spend an extra year with your dad?" I don't know if there's an upper limit.
Of course, but that's you. HE would probably rather you remember him when he was healthier, not slowly dying ugly, and use the money to make his grandchildren's lives better.
Either way, you will grieve his loss, but one way leaves his offspring better off. Most Dads know which choice they'd make, even if their loving children would disagree. Good dads have to make the tough choices for their family.
Even if I could afford treatment, if it's a guaranteed death sentence I'm booking a flight to a place with doctor assisted suicide.
Going through hell just so you can live a bit longer and suffer the whole time sounds dumb to me.
Life's different with kids. I'd literally give up anything for an extra hour with my kids. I would also give up everything to give them a better life. It's a complicated situation and people are dumbing it down as much as possible, and it's a little unfair. It's very easy to say what you'd do when it's just you, but these fucking progeny put their hooks in you, I swear to God. They have made me into a person I never thought I would be, and I can guarantee if they said "Dad, five more minutes," I'd do it.
None of this should even be a talking point. Dude should've had access to treatment regardless, and he shouldn't have to worry about jeopardizing his kids next 20 years for their next 20 days. It's gross. It makes me sad.
It reminds me of the Star Trek Universe, where replicator technology rendered money useless, since anyone could simply create anything they wanted from the replicator.
Want to have a game of catch? Replicate some broken in gloves and a ball, and go toss it around. When you're done, you just feed it all back into the replicator to be turned into something else. Nobody really owns anything, they just replicate it as they need it, including food.
It reminds me of the Star Trek Universe
It was explicitly a reference to the "Sharing" Economy (Uber, AirBnB, Grubhub, etc) that would supposedly supplant the modern retail sector. So, less replicators and more endless piles of single-use plastics with your take out.
Curiously, for a guy with a Dutch surname had he lived in The Netherlands, even though that country does not have a National Healthcare System and instead has (hightly regulated) Healthcare Insurance, fighting cancer wouldn't have left his family near bankrupt.
for a guy with a Dutch surname
Born in Connecticut.
fighting cancer wouldn’t have left his family near bankrupt.
Hell, he might have survived it if he'd had access to regular checkups and early intervention.
Nah, one thing Dutch healthcare does not do is regular checkups and interventions. I guess that free GP visits could have helped though...
“In the wake of this loss, Kimberly and the children are facing an uncertain future,” the GoFundMe page reads. “The costs of James’s medical care and the extended fight against cancer have left the family out of funds. They are working hard to stay in their home and to ensure the children can continue their education and maintain some stability during this incredibly difficult time.
What an uncivilized shithole of a country. Civilized countries have single payer health insurance.
Good lord, you godless communists never think of other people! What about shareholder value?!
But seriously, as an older person, I hope I go quickly and quietly.
I’ve increased my cholesterol intake and signed my DNR’s.
Or a National Health Service?
I think the National Health Service (assuming you mean in the UK) is a form of single-payer healthcare
I was meaning the NHS in the UK. I'd not heard the phrase "single-payer healthcare" before and sort of assumed it was some form of "health insurance" thing, but one significantly less insane than the American system.
I tried looking at the Wikipaedia page for it, but now it's even less clear - it says "The term was coined in the 1990s to characterize the differences between the Canadian healthcare system with those such as the United Kingdom's NHS", suggesting it very much means "not the NHS" - though it also mentions UK healthcare elsewhere on the page???
Anyway, the essence of the point is the same - the way the American system works is insane and barbaric, and there are better, proven to work, options available which are currently used in other countries :)
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They're trying to raise 1 million and they're at 600k now so they're probably going to make it. My brain is pushing back hard on looking for charity in the realm of a million dollars for a singular family and I'm sure a lot are with me, but the family does seem to have been downsizing before his death and does really seem to have been auctioning off their valuable possessions.
A million bucks to raise six kids, and send them to college, isn't going to go far.
Honestly, Medical care is so expensive I wouldn’t begrudge anyone asking for enough money to cover it and some money to just breathe. Honestly, no one’s medical debt should outlive them.
his cancer was already mestasized by the time he was diagnosed, so likely he was trying drastic expensive treatment from the get-go to get it under control.
His family would have been better off if he'd ended it when he got the news. We have a health care system where suicide, as a medical cost-saving strategy, is realistically on the list of options.
its also significant that is colorectal cancer in someone in thier 30s/40s which tend to be more aggressive than the usually 50-90s
I don't know if I'm spreading FUD but it seems like colon cancer is on the rise for younger people and I'm afraid because I'm on that age range
Insane
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