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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.

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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 88 points 1 year ago

Join forces with a former student and cook meth in the back of a Winnebago

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 year ago
[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago
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[-] TheWeirdestCunt@lemm.ee 73 points 1 year ago

I just get treatment because I live in a country that actually provides its citizens with healthcare (even if the Tories want to get rid of that).

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[-] mundane@feddit.nu 50 points 1 year ago

I don't worry about money since the treatment is free and sick people get money from the government during recovery.

[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago

Start a fundraising email chain for Trumps legal defense and mass mail it.

[-] FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

Sneak into a country with public healthcare I guess, maybe steal the identity of someone if they won't treat a stranger.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Why yes I am Costa Rican

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[-] HeckGazer@programming.dev 22 points 1 year ago

Go to a hospital and get it treated. I assume this is some third world health care bait though, as it's missing which country the hypothetical is happening in

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[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 20 points 1 year ago

I would do nothing. Healthcare is free here

[-] Eranziel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Same. As it should be.

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[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Die of anxiety long before the cancer gets me, lol

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I've heard that the success rate of bank robberies is far under reported.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yes, but it's misleading. Most bank robbers get cash from the tellers, and not even all of them. You might clear 10k on a really good score. It's a lot of risk for little reward. You'd have better success with insurance fraud.

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[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I don't need money for the treatment. #publichealthcare

[-] lemmyng@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago
[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Seriously? You wouldn't do crime to live?

[-] lemmyng@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] Ignacio@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

Laughs in Spanish from Spain.

[-] noisypine@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago

Divorce my wife, quit working and get state funded insurance. We still keep her income and I can get treatment without sinking my entire family. Something something capitalist dystopia.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] FFbob@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Used to see these people with multiple prescriptions for Percocets. They would use one for themselves and sell all the rest as individual pills to pay for treatment.

American healthcare system turned little old ladies with cancer into hardcore drug dealers.

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[-] ExLisper@linux.community 10 points 1 year ago

I don't think stealing would be the hard part. Selling the goods would be. To steal large sum I guess I will drive a stolen car through a jewellery store's window. I believe this had fairly high success rate with Romanian gangs doing this many times in France and getting away with it. To steel a car I would look for someone leaving it running while and getting out to for a moment. I think I would be able to find one in a couple of weeks. Than smash the widow, grab what I can and run. Risky but if I'm dying anyway it would be worth trying. Turning it into cash would be very difficult though.

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[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You just described life in America for a moral person.

[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Assuming I know some chemistry, I'd cook some crystal meth.

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[-] bonus_crab@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

From the usa, safest bet would probably be a heist on an armored vehicle, killing the driver and taking his clothes and belongings and heading to mexico to change the money and get healthcare.

Or better yet , you might not even need to kill the driver. impersonate or bribe a cop and just pull them over and take the money. Cops did that all the time a few years ago, targeting companies related to weed since its federally illegal, making the transport of the profit on interstate highways vaguely illegal. They still can, but they supposedly dont.

[-] mayonaise_met@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Rugpull a ether fork

[-] Delicious_Tomatoes@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Finish that "non-violence is ineffective" essay (it's dense). Join the collective on the front lines. Results: A) we gather steam and ultimately succeed. B) martyrdom gives my death meaning. C) prison provides healthcare and three squares. D) prison is so awful that we revisit B.

[-] sm1dger@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The money is a means to an end. It would be more efficient to steal the drugs themselves. As a first guess, threaten a doctor to steal the drugs and write out a detailed rota of what to take and when for you. Depending on the means used to coerce, leave the country afterwards. Or just live in a country with socialised healthcare

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[-] dumdum666@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Pfff… you are probably just someone that scours the internet for new twists and ideas in the name of big Hollywood-Studios since those pesky SAG-AFTRA people refuse to work, huh? /s

[-] Iunnrais@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I continue working in Japan and have it covered by national insurance.

[-] Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I live in Canada, I'm good.

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