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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Right. For perspective, I once paid $200 for a single Xray (needed 3, total $600, not counting the doctors bill). And that’s with health insurance.

    If you have to go to urgent care, expect to pay close to $1000 for simple needs, much higher than that for more complex needs. An ambulance ride can cost upwards of $5000, and an airlift is several times that.

    So better not be too much into sports, or trauma will drain your bank account.

    Then you add the complete absence of consumers rights and little to no oversight on industrial activity. Lead and PFA poisoned water, food additives that are banned in most of the developed world, sugar in everything,… It’s near impossible not to get sick here.





  • A two bedroom, one bathroom house built in the 80s in San Francisco cost $1.1 million a couple years back. I don’t suppose cost of living in most big cities went down.

    For comparison, Mitchell Baker, the former CEO of Mozilla, saw her yearly pay rise from $2.4 million in 2018 to 6.9 million in 2022. I think it’s perfectly adequate for the CEO of matrix to earn the salary of a moderately successful software engineer.