Congress Prioritizes AI Chips Over Ailing Hospitals
The mainstream media reports this as a simple outcome of legislative choices, highlighting a '$4 trillion tax cut package' that disproportionately benefits corporations. What they conveniently gloss over is the fundamental calculus: massive public subsidies and tax breaks for private industry – whether it's chip manufacturers or crypto—while essential public services like healthcare are
systemically defunded. It's not a bug; it's the feature of a political system where maximizing corporate profit is the prime directive, often directly at the expense of social well-being. One might wonder, how many high-tech data centers does it take to provide a single, fully staffed emergency room? Or, how many blockchain algorithms will cure a patient without insurance? The 'winners' in
Congress seem less interested in healing the body politic and more in fattening corporate portfolios, an entirely predictable outcome when campaign donations often precede legislative action. Who needs a functioning health system when you can have record semiconductor stock prices?