Comment by simondotau

I agree that single-payer baseline healthcare is the obviously correct answer. The experiment has been run countless times globally, and there's enough evidence to put this beyond debate. Rebecca's circumstance isn't Kafkaesque, it's merely adding to that mountain of evidence.

> how is "healthcare" from 500 years ago the bar

I agree completely, but it's not Kafkaesque for a person to ask one's own community for voluntarily contributions in their time of need, just because that community happens to be online.

> gofundme is even more kafkaesque in that it gatekeeps fundraising to those who have [strong] online social networks

There's nothing Kafkaesque about a popular person having more opportunities than an unpopular person. And there's nothing inherently capitalist about it either. This is human nature, nothing more. I would be far more concerned about an economic system that sought to "guarantee equality" in a way that reduces the individual's incentive to be kind to others.