Midnight
Sam Ghandchi
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نیمه شب

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It's midnight now and I woke up and can't sleep. My problem is not just thinking about the situation in Iran, but from afar, I worry every minute about the health of my family and the people of Iran, Israel, USA, and the world in this midst of war, when for years I have written to prevent this war from happening and shouted as much as I could! Right now I'm worried about whether or not I'll have a PET scan for my cancer in the next week or two because I'm wondering if insurance will cover the procedure, and a friend is advising me to be careful not to get into more debt later, which would mean I'd have to forgo the procedure, and another friend is trying to help financially, and I'm grateful to both of them for their sympathy. But the reality is that these medical costs are truly staggering, and we cannot blame the government alone for refusing to cover the costs of many of these procedures, and as a result, many patients are left with the burden of not only living but also dying. Rather, they are willing to die and forgo treatment, leaving behind debts for their survivors. Many movies have been made about this, where people with incurable diseases prefer to die rather than incur more debt for themselves and their survivors.

However, I was thinking so much thanks to Ray Kurzweil, that all these years, in addition to humanity, he has insisted on the issue of *abundance* as a real solution to the problem of social justice, and has made a real effort that is closer to reality for justice than the centuries of promises of socialists. It's very simple. In my father's time, if you wanted to buy a watch, you had to pay a fortune and buy a Swiss Omega watch. Today, you go to Walmart and buy a much better watch for a fraction of the cost. The same can be said about smartphone phones and, in fact, many other products and even glasses that are sold at Walmart. The entire Walmart chain store business is based on this model, which today even has an eye doctor and an optician, meaning services that in the past, like a PET scan today, were exorbitantly expensive. I hope the Walmart model will also be used for other medical needs. Indeed, *abundance*, more than any socialist promise brings us closer to social justice, instead of, in these situations, to expect our loved ones to either reduce their own comfort and help us, or to forgo treatment like some patients who don't want to leave more debt to their survivors. I hope that artificial intelligence and nanotechnology will develop further, which will be a great help to abundance and therefore social justice, instead of making us feel more sad in these cases or getting angry with each other when we really can't do anything for ourselves and our loved ones.

Hoping for a democratic and secular futurist republic in Iran,
Sam Ghandchi
IRANSCOPE
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July 9, 2025

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