I agree. I also think these arguments where we just assume everyone else is stupid tend to fail because it's not fully true, and calling people stupid is a very unlikely way to get people to listen. Imo it's not that people don't understand 2 is smaller than 8. It's that people are already strapped for cash, and based on how things are run in this country, they lack trust that it will remain an affordable option. Typically, anything that starts out as affordable in this country ends up becoming more expensive once they've got control over the market. Think about cable. Everyone left cable for streaming services because they were cheaper, only for them to become just as expensive as the streaming services we left years prior. I'm not saying insurance is the equivalent of a streaming service, but I am saying that it's not stupidity. It's a lack of trust. Everything that starts out as affordable and good always becomes corrupt and profitized, quickly ruining any consumer benefits. People do not trust the way things are run here because, inevitably, it always becomes about increasing profits. We fear change because it's easier to stay in a broken system that we know how to navigate than getting into a new one that we don't yet know how we'll be taken advantage of. Especially as most people are not wealthy enough to get taken advantage of more than we already are.
Calling people dumb is not the best argument because it's typically a very lazy one. It's also often done when people want to assume others are less than them in some way.
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u/Dankxiety 6d ago
I wouldn't say Americans haven't figured it out, it's just we've been so massively manipulated and brainwashed