Assume you’re life-lusted and are willing to abandon every moral you have just to live. Paying for cancer treatment is also worth prison time to you.
Also assume you’ve exhausted all ethical fundraising options, i.e. GoFundMe, loans, etc. and that insurance won’t cover treatment for whatever reason.
Join forces with a former student and cook meth in the back of a Winnebago
Sounds like a plan, Jesse
Seriously though, drugs are the quickest easiest way to make a quick buck. Used to be able to scam the check cashing places pretty easy but it’s mostly electronic now.
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Whoever’s downvoting you has clearly never pulled night shifts at a 7-Eleven.
Jesse! We need to COOK!
BITCH!
You just described life in America for a moral person.
I don’t worry about money since the treatment is free and sick people get money from the government during recovery.
Which country?
Pretty much any developed country.
Norway
Germany at least, probably the whole EU too.
Sweden
That didn’t answer the question. You just sound pretentious.
I mean… it did, they would go get treatment. They have that option.
They did answer, It means they are stealing tax money from ALL Germans. /s
And you sound salty bro 🙃
Nah, it’s fair. The health care dilemma is why I actually asked in the first place.
I don’t understand why it is people don’t revolt over it. The government is literally killing people and society itself just expects you to die and no one actually thinks about or appreciates the gravity of the situation.
Australia. 3 years of chemotherapy, two stem cell transplants, multiple X-rays, CT and MRI scans, now in remission, didn’t have to pay for any of it.
Start a fundraising email chain for Trumps legal defense and mass mail it.
Galaxy brain over here
if its good enough for him, its good enough for cancer.
I don’t need money for the treatment. #publichealthcare
Die of anxiety long before the cancer gets me, lol
I’ll get a social welfare benefits which won’t be a lot but I can probably make do for a while. I’ll also get a medical insurance benefit which covers roughly 2/3 of my insurance so I’ll have to pay something like €40/month myself. Those benefits will help me pay the €385 max yearly out of pocket for the care I’ll need, and be done with it. That’s not to say being in this situation is great in the Netherlands, but I won’t go into debt and I won’t lose my home (gov’t guarantees mortgage to bank) and I won’t have to continue to pay back my 0% interest student loans.
We’re lucky. But make sure to vote.
this implies welfare is stealing
What do you mean?
You have no option but to steal
(from the post title)
Ah, damnit. I guess I’ve accidentally gone full right wing there.
happens to the best of us
Wouldn’t it just be easier to move to Europe?
Good luck getting in.
You need to be rich to emigrate
You don’t have to be rich, it takes a couple thousand dollars, the problem is to not become homeless afterwards…
Isn’t having a job lined up a prerequisite for immigration in most countries?
Immigration is complicated, and you are thinking only of “legal” immigration. It is extremely common for people to ignore those laws. And a job is not always required, no.
You (generic you) don’t need to really emigrate to a country to receive treatment, you could go with a tourist visa or visa free and get treated, then go back to the shitty country without universal healthcare where you live.
In my home country everyone has access to healthcare because it’s a human right, so by law it doesn’t matter what your immigration status is, you will get care. This includes cancer treatment, for free.
So all you gotta steal is $300 for a plane ticket. That should be relatively easy, right?
Maybe car theft would make sense. The reward isnt too low and the risk isn’t too high. Although I wouldn’t know how to sell it. Might have to drive each car over the boarder or something. That increases risk but should still be feasible here in Europe.
Otherwise maybe setting up a crypto scam would be feasible for me. I never used Etherum but I know the technical basics of blockchains, they were part of my distributed systems class.
Create a fake news website and make sure there’s a floating donate button on every page.
Complain about Klaus Schwab and the WEF and talk about eating bugs and not owning anything.
Say the donation is for gods army to take on Bill Gates and his Clinton’s.
Make absolute bank in less than a week. Tried and true. These people aren’t going anywhere so you might as well mine them like the resources they are.
that totally fitional plan would involve CEOs, owners of pharma companies and pharma lobbyists. it would barely be stealing
I don’t think I am able to make that much money even if I played along with your no morals all goes scenario.
Realistically I have zero chances of successfully robbing a bank or avoiding police if say, I choose to kidnap a baby and ask for a Ransom.
Drug dealing would be more believable, I guess I could start my own mushroom and marijuana business but I don’t think I’ll be able to make enough or grow my network as much as necessary to cover for expenses.
You don’t need money to receive treatment in the US. But to answer the prompt, I’d just rob a bank with a note and no weapon. Immediately surrender when the police arrive and spend the next few years in prison getting 100% free healthcare
Laughs in Spanish from Spain.
Seriously? You wouldn’t do crime to live?
I’ve had acquaintances waste away trying to delay cancer death. Hospice is not fun, so I’d rather go out on my own terms.
Plus, any kind of money making scheme I’d think of is likely going to end up like the “aim for the bushes” scene in The Other Guys.
Even for cancers with high survival rates, like skin or breast cancer?
I only came in here to tell you to fuck right the fuck off as a cancer patient who can barely afford their meds.
This question is disgusting and pathetic. I barely bave the energy to take care of myself with this god damned disease. I am immune compromised. I am in pain all the time. I can barely manage things that used to be easy.
Sure I should fuck up my life even worse trying to pursue crime while my body falls apart. I totally have the energy for that. /S
How about you stop being a worthless fucking prick and instead advocate for a better system.
I hope you get cancer and can’t afford the meds so maybe you can get your head unstuck from your ass and see how fucking disgusting and offensive this whole discussion is you sick worthless sack of shit.
My life is real, and other cancer patients lives are real, not a funny thought experiment you dumb loser fuck. Or are cancer patients so unreal to you that you thought for sure none would be on Lemmy or offended by your sheer thoughtlessness?
Eat shit and delete this whole post asshole.
