• towerful@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    Free as in “free at the point of service”.
    Of course it is paid for somehow.
    But as far a a someone going into a hospital to get a cast, medicine, birth… It’s free

    • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      That’s true. Unfortunately, calling it free is often used by people who want to paint it as infeasible, and is used as an excuse to cut funding—even when data shows it’s an investment with human and monetary rewards.

        • OwOarchist@pawb.social
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          3 months ago

          Conservative America is driven so hard by the fear of somebody poorer darker skinned than you getting something you’re not.

          • story@lemmy.zip
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            3 days ago

            it’s both, not one or the other. race is a component of class society but does not predate it and will never supplant it