In Reply to: Very perceptive and exactly right. But it's a lot more than the posted by HasBen on October 30, 2025 at 07:39:19
I'm trying to hold back because it's easy for me to jump into anticapitalist rant, but you're also correct. Because the underlying problem is: capitalism is not a very good system in for thing that people have to have in their lives.
It's great for consumer goods that you can choose not to have. Capitalism feels downward pressure for prices on things individual consumers can walk away from. People choosing not to consume that thing is what creates that pressure.
You don't get that with health, education, and a bunch of other things (what you do with a dead relative's body for instance). If you *have* to pay for it somehow, then capitalism injects an upward pressure on pricing. This even applies to things that become perceived as a necessity over time (see phones: they add things to it and package it with all kind of other things to make it even more expensive).
As long it becomes a component of life you can't decide not to have, the prices always end up higher because you're gonna find a way to come back and buy the thing. If you don't have the money, you're going to borrow and as long as money is available for borrowing, the prices will keep going up, something that's happened in education.
So yeah, I'm that guy, but really. Capitalism is the core problem here. It's great for certain things, terrible for others.