Corporations: Hire the most vicious power-hungry graduates from Oxford Business School and the London School of Economics. Hire leading psychiatrists and psychologists from Cambridge University. Ask them how to develop addictive products. Spend over £1 billion a year on aggressive targeted advertising.

Government Let’s do absolutely nothing.

(a few years later)

People: Why are so many people dying an early death??

    • jet@hackertalks.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      4 days ago

      Actually, the opposite, turns out keeping sick people barely alive is expensive

      A health person tends to live a long time and just die. A sick person can linger for decades

      • steeznson@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        4 days ago

        I’ve read some studies that suggest people dying of lung cancer save the NHS money. They take up a lot of money in a lump sum but it tends to be incurable and kills them quite quickly. The alternative is people getting dementia or other degenerative cares and living for decades with round the clock care.