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 @0957ed09 Medical bills in the US are absurd. $250k is a pretty reasonable estimate of what it will take to get through the first part of recovery. 

After the initial medical bills there's still a lot for everyone to go through. Having money can go a long way to reduce one stresser on a family already under a lot of stress. There are also a lot of expenses that wouldn't be covered by even good insurance. 

The go find me is almost half way to its goal, so please take the time to donate what you can. 
 @429bb265 every time a CEO says something completely evil, everyone cries out for the #guilotine. But guillotines are only useful once you've already won. They're a tool of revenge.

But what revenge is a quick death? I want these people to see the world they prevented. I want them to be utterly powerless in our utopia, like we have been completely powerless in theirs. I want the narcissism that drives them to have to face the fact that they were never the brilliant people they thought they were. I want them to live in a world built for everyone by everyone, instead of a world built by them for them, and understand every day that it's fundamentally better.

Everyone calls for guillotines, but there's no number of guillotines you can build that will get us closer to a better world. If you hate these people, build thing libraries, plant food forests, create shared pantries and free thing dispensaries. Channel that anger into building a world where guillotines are unnecessary.

Guillotines don't make them afraid. Us building a world without them is what they really fear.