Monday, June 20, 2016

Too big to fail?

It's a dysfunctional system that penalizes Doctors (HMO Drs) & teachers (required by Common Core Standards) who actually have the misfortune of being presented with difficult to treat/educate  patients/students.  Health Maintenance physicians of course aren't actually "penalized," but rather are incentivized to spend less time and money on patients for they benefit from their facility's profits.  Similarly, the reputation of teachers can be mischaracterized for their performance can not justly be gauged by mere review of the test scores of their students.

So the point is, we've let business models downgrade the efficacy of these two institutions; medicine and education need to revert their focus back to the patient and the student.

It should also be considered alarming that many other agencies that purport to benefit our citizens don't even come close to benefitting for similar reasons of profit at the cost of the public's general well-being. How is obtaining natural gas even a sane industry if it destroys the potability of water? How is any production at all justified if it contaminates our environment with concentrations of toxins!?  How is it not fatally ironic that for the sake of leisure, comfort and mobility we've created the nightmarish job of cleaning up after ourselves?!  Worse, we claim to be a superior species, yet we've managed to decimate many and threaten all the rest.  Some of the worst industries are associated with promoting and building our shelters while deforesting the earth, evicting millions of creatures from their accustomed habitats.

So, you think it's the banks fault aye?  They're just a scratch on the surface—and we are wrong to presume humankind is too big to fail. Look around you. The inevitable is downward, Sisyphus!