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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 60646" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>I think that "the richest nation in the world" is more and more of a myth. Sure, we are well to do, and there are more middle class people here than in most other places. But the divide between the richest and the poorest is massive, and there are less and less in the middle. We are so calloused about the "have nots". It seems that many of us are inclined to take too much glee in the thought that there is <em>someone</em> not as good off as we are. This movie makes it clear that other than the very few very well to do, we are all one serious illness away from utter doom.</p><p></p><p>I feel that the current trend of belittling anyone different than us only exacerbates the problem and is something that certain powerful groups do as "entertainment" or "Infotainment" in order to pit us against each other so we won't stand up for each other. Is it realistic for insurance, drug, and health companies to think that they can continue to increase their profits every year forever? When will we say that enough is enough?</p><p></p><p>We're all people. I hope we can all contribute to finding a way to being more "inclusive" than thinking we "exclusive", because really, we ain't all that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 60646, member: 99"] I think that "the richest nation in the world" is more and more of a myth. Sure, we are well to do, and there are more middle class people here than in most other places. But the divide between the richest and the poorest is massive, and there are less and less in the middle. We are so calloused about the "have nots". It seems that many of us are inclined to take too much glee in the thought that there is [i]someone[/i] not as good off as we are. This movie makes it clear that other than the very few very well to do, we are all one serious illness away from utter doom. I feel that the current trend of belittling anyone different than us only exacerbates the problem and is something that certain powerful groups do as "entertainment" or "Infotainment" in order to pit us against each other so we won't stand up for each other. Is it realistic for insurance, drug, and health companies to think that they can continue to increase their profits every year forever? When will we say that enough is enough? We're all people. I hope we can all contribute to finding a way to being more "inclusive" than thinking we "exclusive", because really, we ain't all that. [/QUOTE]
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