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  • tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.mltoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Those in countries with universal healthcare, what's it like?
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    2 months ago

    Italy here.

    It’s great to have it, and as I see what happens around the world I understand how nearly utopian-like the concept is.

    … but people will complain and moan about it anyway, and the main reason is that:

    • while being universal every different region (20 in italy) has its own locally administered and budgeted subsystem implementation which might will differ from the next region system and so patients data won’t be able to be transferable or even observable from each different region network
      Also the level of cures you receive might vary in their quality from region to region

    • it is understaffed because the salary is not worth the responsibilities, unless you get to be a specialist doctor, so for instance there are not nearly enough nurses or sometimes triage doctors, and so many workers have to go through extenuating working hours schedules to cover missing work force, and of course this will affect their performance and even send someone into burnout

    • it is understaffed because it is underbudgeted, and this is by design by politicians, ultimately run by right-wingers since some decades already, who are trying to give the people more and more reason to hate the public health system, so one day they might be able to succeed to sell all the public (paid with peoples taxes) infrastructures to privates, transforming the public health system into the “american dream” health system

    • it is underbudgeted because taxes here are paid for the 70% of the total by employees and by retired people, which constitutes but a glimpse of the personal profits of the total, while every one with an autonomous job, including companies, just fuck with taxes, year after year, in a systematic and systemic way, so much that every new government will indict a new taxation amnesty because the budget needed to go after the unpaid taxation is more than the taxation not earned.
      …oh yeah and then after that the same politician will complain and moan about the public health system being inefficient and needing a privatization reform.

  • tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Does anyone else hate how everyone is trying to make money all the time?
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    6 months ago

    The issue is basically that profit is just defined by a money transaction and that is completely unrelated to the quality of values on which it is being conveyed, pecunia non olet.

    There are for sure virtuous enterprises which generates values for humans, but the large part of them deals in vicious transactions which by design only exploit humans for profit instead.

    If we want progress and we want a free economic system then the coin must be one and only, and it must be directly connected with the effects on the wellbeing of each fellow human.

  • tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.world•Help me ditch windows?English
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    6 months ago

    Try something conventional, with low maintenance and large adoption, and tailored for the home user, like as Linux Mint for instance.
    Take your time there to learn the basics and get acquainted with the new environment.

    Cachy is nice, and flashy and cool, but is a rolling release, sometimes it gets broken by some package update (…systemd), and it might need some tweaking to get a temp fix while the repo updates align to stability again. The good thing about cachy is that being based on Arch you’re gonna fully benefit from Arch wiki which is nothing short of double amazing.

    Bazzite too is very nice too for gaming setups, but I had a bad experience on the underlying Fedora atomic distro on which I was installing an old printer which required software was not in the repo and which were offered only as .deb packages (made for Debian), which required a socially unacceptable amount of time of tinkering. That means with Bazzite you’re all set if your hw is very streamlined, but if you’re using something peculiar you are on your own.

    If you really want the latest updates for gaming, but also benefit from the large adoption of a debian based distro you can also try PikaOS, which is Debian testing release optimized for gaming experience, think about it like a Cachy based on Debian rather than Arch

    https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=pikaos

    just keep in mind that in comparison to Mint it surely be less tested, and that anyway even with cachy vs mint in gaming tests the advantages of cachy are practically negligible, and the main difference in perf is given by gfx driver quality, in which specific case nvidia linux drivers are historically the black sheep of the story