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submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is not a country, this is a money laundering scheme for big businesses pretending that charging someone to save their life isn’t ill gotten gains

Btw the info of the hospital that did this is as follows:

Legacy Emanuel Medical Center

Phone: 503-415-5600

Address: 2801 N. Gantenbein Ave. Portland, OR 97227

Would be a shame if they had to hear people were upset by this

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

That was one of Graeber's main points in Debt: the first 5000 years, debt is a perfect way to turn relations of violence on their head, making the oppressor seem the victim, and the victim seem to be the one in the wrong.