"We" absolutely are ignoring their environment in the USA at least. People cannot even access healthcare here without additional, significant financial stress and burden. My entire family and the strong majority of my region and a general majority overall oppose the policies and systems that would give someone like me a life and future. Even seeing how it's gone for me my family refuses to support social systems and offer help to those in need. It's "stealing my money" to them and ruined our relationships seeing how selfish they are turning their back on me AND society.
I know the causes of my issues, there are at a minimum mitigations available but I can't BUY them because everything here is a business and competition and someone else took me out of the race by taking lots of money to end my capacity to compete (poor medical intervention) and I was left holding all the additional baggage with no help. I have friends who suffered catastrophes living in countries who don't think social systems are evil, and they had the tools to heal as much as possible and improve their lives and be able to contribute to the whole again. I wasn't afforded that opportunity and it's been a constant downhill slide.
Pardon the tone and it is not directed at you, it just infuriates me that American society ignores such important things and once someone is not able to WIN in the Thunderdome they are cast aside and/or expected to live with little to nothing and even more needs, while it continues focusing on pushing what are in my view largely ineffective, but very profitable "interventions". I find the predilection for painting over damage in this country over restoring/shoring up someone's foundation to be maddening.
I know the causes of my issues, there are at a minimum mitigations available but I can't BUY them because everything here is a business and competition and someone else took me out of the race by taking lots of money to end my capacity to compete (poor medical intervention) and I was left holding all the additional baggage with no help. I have friends who suffered catastrophes living in countries who don't think social systems are evil, and they had the tools to heal as much as possible and improve their lives and be able to contribute to the whole again. I wasn't afforded that opportunity and it's been a constant downhill slide.
Pardon the tone and it is not directed at you, it just infuriates me that American society ignores such important things and once someone is not able to WIN in the Thunderdome they are cast aside and/or expected to live with little to nothing and even more needs, while it continues focusing on pushing what are in my view largely ineffective, but very profitable "interventions". I find the predilection for painting over damage in this country over restoring/shoring up someone's foundation to be maddening.