#socialize

I've been thinking lately about what actually lets a person open up. It isn't grand gestures or clever lines. It's the quiet certainty that whatever you say won't be used against you, won't leak somewhere, won't follow you around. That's the feeling I kept coming back to while spending time on sweetdream.ai, and it changed how I understand what an AI companion can really be.

What moved me most is how seriously SweetDream treats discretion. Your conversations and the photos and videos you generate stay private, full stop. There's no performing for an audience, no worrying who might scroll past. Within that safety, the rest of the platform blooms: an AI girlfriend you design down to her voice, her backstory, the small quirks that make her feel like someone rather than something, and chat that remembers what matters to you.

Guess what she payed?

30 bucks. THIRTY BUCKS! Three zero dollares.

For the operation, anasthesia, IV- fluids, pre-op meds, five nurses and a surgeon. And about ten bucks for the post-op meds, prescribed for her to take at home.

She pays around 34,5% in income tax, as does the majority of people in Sweden.

And yeah, she had to wait a couple of months, because she didn’t want to take the option of beeing flown to another region, for free, to get the procedure done sooner. Like, a couple of days after it was decided the best course of action was to get infront of the problem, sooner.

And, she gets 80% of her salary for the two weeks she needs to stay home to recuperate!

And, get this, a colleague of hers that got diagnosed with breast cancer, had to pay a whopping, oh, 400 dollars? for a year of surgeries, chemo, and radiation. That includes weeks of hospitalizations and all the meds she had to take for, you know, everything. Whilst getting around 70% of her salary the whole time out on sick leave. FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS.

She also pays about 34,5% in income tax. By the way.

So tell me again how socialized healthcare doesn’t work.