[Lightspeed]

People are compelled to find ways to get their needs met in a society that has all value production tightly controlled. We can keep trying to find other things to blame, as evidenced by this thread, but we're just children having tantrums.

Every time some institution that controls access to resources, like medicine, makes a determination "people who fit these criteria deserve resourcing", of course there's going to be a scrabble to see if you or yours can fit that criteria. Periphery concerns become more primary, more personally pressing issues are pushed aside.

I get it tho. Addressing inequality might mean recognising you could go with a bit less. And less is a step on the path to not enough. And we know how poorly it goes for those with not enough.

So let's not talk about inequality, how tight control of resources creates these distortions. Let's not focus on the forces creating these bulges, let's focus on the bulges themselves. Try to squash them back down.

That'll work, right? Surely.