Looking at this from someone who grew up with SUS (our public healthcare system here), the american healthcare model seems absolutely wild to me. Like you can literally go bankrupt because you got cancer? That's some dystopian stuff right there
I work with health data in my job and the numbers are pretty clear - countries with universal systems just perform better on almost every metric. Lower infant mortality, higher life expectancy, way less medical bankruptcies (obviously). The profit motive in healthcare creates these perverse incentives where keeping people sick is more profitable than keeping them healthy
Future generations are gonna look back at this era where people rationed insulin and avoided ambulances because of cost, and they're gonna be horrified. It's like how we look back at company towns or child labor - stuff that seemed "normal" at the time but was obviously exploitation
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Haradion_01Apr 3, 2026
+2
Imagine trying to tell a kid.
"So what happened if you were poor?"
"You died."
"Because you were poor?!"
"You were **supposed to die**."
2
Silver-Parsley-HayApr 3, 2026
+9
ICE.
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newrockstyleApr 3, 2026
+4
data surveillance
4
Imaginary-Ad-7919Apr 3, 2026
+3
Terms and conditions. No one reads them, yet we sign away half our lives.
3
HuntingForEverythingApr 3, 2026
+3
The way we handle data privacy and targeted psychological advertising. Our grandkids will be horrified that companies knew our thoughts before we did.
3
Fit-Original1314Apr 3, 2026
+3
I was reading about some stuff like indefinite detention or surveillance and its crazy that’s legal. like imagine your grandkids looking back and being like wait they just watched everything you did?? wild. i mean we laugh now but it’s scary.
3
Smartkid1026Apr 3, 2026
-1
They don't watch EVERYTHING. They can't see inside your house, and even The Patriot Act only applies to messages going to and from foreign countries.
-1
EscudoLosApr 3, 2026
+2
As someone who works for an ISP...... WiFi Spatial Mapping is a thing.
2
Far_Lifeguard_5027Apr 3, 2026
+1
Not to mention... transparent DNS proxies that log everything. It shouldn't be this hard to have secure DNS without ISPs wanting to intercept everything.
1
bromine-14Apr 3, 2026
+2
Oil dependency..
2
zeusdadogApr 3, 2026
+2
I think Solitary Confinement. We’ve long known it’s a form of psychological torture and yet it's still widely used in many prison systems. It will likely be seen as a cruel and unusual practice in the future.
2
LowkeyAlcholicApr 3, 2026
+2
You stab or fight someone in general population of prison, what're they supposed to do? Move you to another pod where A, the person you stabbed or fought has connections and puts you in more danger or B, move you somewhere where other inmates cant touch you, and you cant touch them. Realistically, I think we need to adopt some of the UK prison system practices where it preaches rehabilitation over anything else.
2
EscudoLosApr 3, 2026
+1
Where exactly are the Dylan Roof, El Chapo, Anders Brevik & Diddy types supposed to go?
1
ThatOneGuy4321Apr 3, 2026
+1
Compulsory prison labor, private prisons
1
No-Signal1728Apr 3, 2026
+1
AI
1
00psadaisyApr 3, 2026
+1
Forced into subscribing to MS Office
1
the_reluctanceApr 3, 2026
+1
the current price of a bigmac
1
Consistent-SugarBApr 3, 2026
+1
Factory farming probably.. th scale of animal suffering billions thems in confinement may look as indefensible to future generations as chattel slavery does to us now
1
onlyinvowelsApr 3, 2026
+1
Criminalizing drug use/addiction. Criminalizing anything, at least the way we do now.
I believe that society will not operate on the assumption that free will exists. Dangerous people/behaviors will be addressed, but people will be treated with dignity.
Maybe I’m too optimistic.
1
RenbelleApr 3, 2026
+1
Well, according to the Supreme Court, conversion therapy is legal now, sooo…
🤬🤬🤬
1
Educational-Net7415Apr 3, 2026
+1
Electoral voting.
1
NOT_xingpingfan69Apr 3, 2026
-2
Assuming peoples genders
-2
ohmygolly2581Apr 3, 2026
-1
Abortion
-1
onlyinvowelsApr 3, 2026
+2
I don’t think so. Maybe a harder line around 20 weeks (freer before then, restrictive after). I’m in the states, so I’m saying this relative to the current laws we have.
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