Leigh Murphy on Nostr: I remember the alarming thing I would hear from people several times a day when I was ...

I remember the alarming thing I would hear from people several times a day when I was doing outdoor art festivals. “I love your art and would love to buy it but we have all our money spent on our house right now.” This started happening about a year and a half before the Great Recession became too obvious for anyone to ignore anymore. People with real wealth tend not to fetishize the showy trappings- those things just naturally become part of their lives and they don’t think much on it. It took me far too long to decide not to date a guy who worshipped his run down older model (insert name of any expensive car here). It wasn’t me being shallow, I just finally figured out that his priorities were skewed to value it and other materialistic stuff he could not afford- over a real human being. Folks like that will throw you under the bus without blinking if it means getting more shiny stuff. Now I realize I’d rather live in a van down by the river (yay fish!) than spend one night in any of the fussy new overpriced, poorly built “people farms” or “human rabbit hutches” being built so fast around here. #priorities #exitthesystem

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Yeah it’s less “physicians” specifically and really just the incentives and structure of the entire healthcare institution. And the mindset around it is backwards. It’s funny because it’s SO similar to the Keynesian economics backwards view: that the “data results” of a healthy person can be artificially created through intervention, and this will mean the person is actually healthy. Similar to how the government says “i see the middle class has houses, let’s manipulate prices and debt to get as many people into houses as possible, and this means we will have a robust and healthy middle class.”

What they fail to recognize is that there is a mindset difference, an understanding of value, different behaviors and choices that *enable* someone to sustainably own a home, you can’t reverse causality. Shoving a bunch of people into homes who can’t afford it, and haven’t yet grown in the way that makes it work for their life and choices, only causes disaster and a facade of wealth over a fundamentally deteriorating society.

It destroys the feedback mechanism that creates middle class **values,** in order to get the appearance of middle class **results.**

Our healthcare mindset is shockingly similar & has extremely similar consequences. Like 80% of the country is on permanent pharmaceutical intervention to give the “apparent results” of what a healthy person might have. And rather than figuring out what is causing chronic inflammation and pain, we’ve specialized in medications that suppress the body’s inflammation response, and put them on new advanced pain killers, so they can walk around as if they are healthy and vibrant, only to have the underlying damage essentially covered up & ignored. And we pay for it dearly 10-20 years down the road.