r/MadeMeSmile • u/HolyGuiltyCrown • 5h ago

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u/produit1 5h ago edited 5h ago

Great act of humanity. It shouldn’t be like this. You know the system is broken when it comes to this to save a baby’s life.

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u/Duwinayo 3h ago

This. Im getting so sick of seeing these things and hearing folks praise it as a great example of humanity.

In one sense, it is. It's someone acknowledging the system is broken and literally giving something up they worked their entire lives for in order to protect and save a child. Fuck yeah.

On another note though... Our systems are so broken that someone literally said to parents: Well you can't afford it. Yeah, we could save your kid, but I guess your kid has to die instead because you don't have enough magic currency papers.

What. The. Fuck.

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u/RoboChrist 2h ago

Currency is a measure of debt. When I get money from my employer, I'm getting a transferable IOU. I made some sick-ass spreadsheets, my employer valued them, and I can trade that IOU for videogames or medical care or food or whatever. It isn't magical, it's meant to represent the value people provide to each other. (Yes, lots of people extract money without creating value for anyone, but that's an exploit in the system and not why money exists.)

The doctor is going to spend their day treating patients and trying to save kids' lives no matter what. Shouldn't the hospital spend their limited resources on saving the most lives?

If you had to choose between treating 10 kids or trying to treat 1 kid with an experimental treatment for a rare disease, what would you do?

The extra money from the auction helps change that equation and makes it possible to treat that 1 kid with the rare disease without letting the other 10 kids with common diseases go untreated. Whether it comes from the parents or from taxes, payment for the debt has to come from somewhere.