When 11-year-old Nemiah Martinez found out her mom needed a kidney and pancreas treatment, she started a lemonade stand to help pay for her to get treatment at the Mayo Clinic. To date, she’s raised $1,100. “I just try to do the best I can do for her.” https://t.co/fUwtEkRt0X pic.twitter.com/e7tbP12g5O

— ABC News (@ABC) May 1, 2018

these stories aren’t heartwarming, they’re devastating indictments of societal failure https://t.co/lEQwdKlcGq

— Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) May 1, 2018

Every story is the same:

Family member is tragically neglected by societal infrastructure that should be helping.

Cute precocious child desperately leverages capitalism to mitigate society’s neglect of their family member. https://t.co/FrE6ont2de

— 5’7” Black Male (@absurdistwords) May 2, 2018