Do you not hear how privileged this sounds? You're lucky enough to have employer-provided healthcare. Even more, it's actually good. Many people don't have either. So yeah, the status quo is great for fortunate you and I'm glad you have zero complaints, but it's all the other people who we're really talking about here. I'm sure Musk and Bezos and Gates have no real issue with current tax code, but when we talk about tax reform, they're not the ones who should have much input.
"Worse healthcare for you and your family because you are privileged" is not particularly compelling to the roughly half of Americans you are yelling at.
Sure. Under the private system, health providers are incentivized to suggest more expensive treatments over better treatments. Even your expensive care isnt as good as it could be
Great, that’s an area that could be win win, it could earn my support. What won’t is an attempt to get to a Canada style system (haven’t experienced Canada, but have experienced UK).
You'll reach a lot more people without that kind of language. I for one almost instantly dismiss anyone who talks like that. I didn't even read the rest of your post.
It doesn't take profanity to alienate readers who don't already share your views.
I don't know why you're commenting, since you're not the original commenter, and your very comment shows how you already recognize the generic accusation-of-privilege to be the problem (and how the word privilege is heavily coded with political affiliations and a whole pile of antagonistic/moralizing dogma at this point). You already knew how and why it would be inflammatory.
You recognized the problem, and opted to try to reframe it in more favorable terms to deny the possibility for improvement.
If the original commenter wants to reach across that Red Tribe / Blue Tribe divider and have an actual discussion (or even convince a neutral 3rd party of their views), their first sentence (and general tone) is quite counter-productive, and you know this.
> I don't know why you're commenting, since you're not the original commenter,
This is a multi-user forum not a peer2peer chat client.
> and your very comment shows how you already recognize the generic accusation-of-privilege to be the problem
No, I'm saying the accusation of privilege is correct and it's not a problem to point out to people on here that we are privileged. Because we are.
> You already knew how and why it would be inflammatory.
If you're in the top 10% and can't stand being called privileged then the problem isn't the tone of the accuser, it's the person receiving the comment. The sooner privileged people stop acting like the victims, the sooner we can start fixing the worlds actual problems.
> their first sentence (and general tone) is quite counter-productive, and you know this.
Actually I was arguing that it's not counter-productive. It was the point of their post and a point very much worth making.
I've seen both sides of the social scale and we are definitely not on the side that should be getting offended when people should "privilege" ;)
