• FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network
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      13 hours ago

      Higher infant mortality, and higher maternal mortality to boot, all while chasing the $5k bait with poor insurance coverage at public hospitals. Meanwhile, the haves can afford better private care. Since that’s where the money will be, they’ll be pulling better doctors and nurses to it, thus avoiding becoming statistics.

      Edit: it all boils back down to “survival of the fittest”, where “fittest” has been redefined to mean “has the most money”.

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      13 hours ago

      Forces everyone to reproduce. Lack of healthcare kills off the ones who can’t afford to survive. The “undesirables” still reproduce, they just die young.

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        12 hours ago

        Prevention of birth control leads to teen pregnancies, especially among the poor. It doesn’t matter if they die young as long as they reproduce. That seems counterproductive…

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          They don’t want the undesirables to die out entirely. They just want them under heel as worker drones.

          On the other side of the coin, gotta make sure the “right people” have lots of kids to make sure there will be an upper class to rule over the worker drones.