I was blown away by this story

[wtg]

Wow.

A 5-year-old boy was left alone in a hospital on the day of his heart surgery. His anesthesiologist adopted him.

That is just the beginning…

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nebraska-boy-left-alone-hospital-heart-surgery-adopted-anesthesiologist/

[Steve Miller]

@wtg

Oh my. What a disturbing story.

Glad to see it’s working out for the kid.

[Daniel]

Social services suck.

This reminds me of social workers. Social workers suck.

This reminds me of non-profits. Non-profits suck.

They are private businesses in all but name.

They give themselves very large salaries and help people in need in a nominal way.

Charities suck. Same set up. They give themselves very large salaries, etc

There was a St. Pete con artist who started a non-profit LLC to manage $100,000,000.00 in pooled trust assets for the disabled and their families. He walked off with $100,000,000.00.

He was sued but the money was gone. The disabled individuals and their families recovered nothing.

I can easily see social services abandoning a child. I'm not buying the stupid non-explanation.

Fwiw, I think about how much money non-profits take in and consider the fact that society's problems they are meant to mitigate if not solve not only continue unabated but continue to worsen.

I'm reminded of when hospitals dump patients in the street under cover of darkness.

We seem to live in a vicious society that feels the need to hide its true nature with a false veneer of caring for its own sake.

Social insurance programs are what work and those are being attacked here and in Europe in various ways.

Why? Greed, once again.

I'm not trying to be cynical. This is only what I have observed over several decades.