Like half your post is agreeing with me though- It all comes back to the shareholders, who are billionares who think themselves invincible. Or regular joes with 401ks - a dastardly scheme to trick normal people into siding with the evilest corporations. Yes my 401k has UHC in it. I tried investing nothing and lost a bunch to inflation. I tried investing in green energy and very specific companies whose products I believe in and that set is down around 60%. Now I go for total market and try to maintain some distance from that because truthfully I'd prefer if every company in the S&P went bust and it feels gross to be tied to their blood money. But hey I do it anyways because its free money (free = taken from people who aren't able to invest). And if I don't do it that changes nothing too. But I feel like such an asshole for holding ETFs so yes, thanks for rubbing that in. --------------------------------------------- I don't think those two votes are so unrelated. The only real solution to UHC is via laws (killing the CEO is obviously not a solution) and the Republicans are evil (obviously) and the democrats are too busy pushing through bills to kill peace movements and promote capitalism. But as a society I think we've lost the ability to do big things. Again, my sister wants to do things to protect forests and the environment. That is basically not a thing you can do. It's impossible. You can work around the problem and improve things in minor semi-related ways and keep the system running. That's not a bad thing to do, I guess. Like - giving minorities what seems to be a legitimately very good job, and doing so with compassion. That is obviously a very good thing. It's making a big difference in their lives, I'm sure. But it's not doing anything to stop private healthcare. And closer to me - I'd like to do something with technology, but there doesn't even seem to be a papering around the problem equivalent there. Basically the only thing that can be done is to work for some big company or worse: a wannabe-big-company that will do anything to grow. There's a few projects that I like, Genode, Itch.io, Craigslist, Sandstorm, but those are tiny groups that are not hiring. By and large whenever software changes it's to make my life worse. I'm never moving to Windows 11. I would like to do something useful, to make elegant and wonderful products that empower real people. That's not even a 'change the world', 'topple power structures', 'end the evil empire' type ask. But as far as I can tell, it's essentially impossible too. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I'll ask this instead: Do you see any path towards single payer healthcare / medicare for all? Is there anything an individual can do to weaken the power of billionaires and shareholders?