I recently emigrated to the USA and I hate the healthcare system here. It feels like the system is we tie everyone down to train tracks, then we hire someone to semaphore to the conductor to pull the brakes just in time. Most of the time, for people who can afford a good signaler, the locomotive stops a few inches before it turns them into strawberry jelly, so no-harm no-foul, the system works?
The signaler, conductor and roper all work for different faceless corporations constantly trying to screw each other and/or you though, the semaphore language is so complicated no human being can speak it, and the message in it can't be known until the locomotive is a few hundred feet away though. You can only choose 1 of 2 options for every role too, so everyone involved is terrible.
Sure we closed some of the loopholes where the locomotive could start again after braking, or the signaler could refuse to do their job because the brakes were offbrand. Really though what I'd like is to just not be in mortal peril at all, which is not the same thing as barely avoiding getting liquified by a steel behemoth by a complex confluence of forces beyond my control.
The signaler, conductor and roper all work for different faceless corporations constantly trying to screw each other and/or you though, the semaphore language is so complicated no human being can speak it, and the message in it can't be known until the locomotive is a few hundred feet away though. You can only choose 1 of 2 options for every role too, so everyone involved is terrible.
Sure we closed some of the loopholes where the locomotive could start again after braking, or the signaler could refuse to do their job because the brakes were offbrand. Really though what I'd like is to just not be in mortal peril at all, which is not the same thing as barely avoiding getting liquified by a steel behemoth by a complex confluence of forces beyond my control.