Imagine living in a place where if mom gets cancer, you don't have to fear that that means the family might become homeless.

Every box of pills has a price embossed on the side. That's the maximum price the government allows that medicine to sell for. No Jan 1 surprises ha ha give us 5x more if you want to live ha ha ha. There's a cap, literally carved into the box.

Mexico graduates twice the number of doctors per capita per year than US. Unsurprisingly, there it's simple to get medical attention, specialist attention and often same day, and pay less than $100 USD for it. Not a copay. Total cost, cash on the barrel head.

As a self employed in California with a child and wife with a working uterus, our health insurance cost $2,300 a month. In Mexico our insurance costs $550/month. And it's real insurance, just for catastrophic stuff. Regular healthcare is cash visits and generics.

The xz thing really spooked you, huh? A good pinch point is at the installer, eg pip, brew, whatever. Grade repos by "supply chain safety" and make it an explicit act to use an unsafe one, just like "unstable". Not much of a speed bump but would make postmortem and proactive scanning easier.

Red leather yellow leather red leather yellow leather...

Turn public goods into private industries. Turn retirement savings into a casino. Turn mutual aid into the nightmare of health insurance. Turn the trades into corporate training. Crush the unions. And make sure they blame themselves or the poor person next door for their misfortune.

Hey, don't kink shame.

Different clippers (don't want to spread anything) same kind (because my nails are thick hobbit nails). Just get a big one with leverage if you need it. Mr Tweezer is a decent brand.

I would love to know how many people have already blocked someone creeping on my DMs, or how often they engage in flamewars.

Probably the best thing you can do is give people from all backgrounds the tools to calibrate their trust instincts. Not the cheap social pressure shit like "Sally and 10 more friends like this post" but real info (that you have!) about overall reputation and specific p2p interaction.

The remarkable / terrible thing about heyday Facebook was how it was a data machine at 10^9 scale but with a 10^2 interface. It really did feel like it was only you and Dunbar's number of your closest friends. That's why the outrage is so strong whenever the matrix underneath shows through.

People who have primarily experience in high-trust environments still understand the difference between high *risk* and low risk. People from low-trust backgrounds understand the value of high-trust links... possibly more than people who take them for granted.