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It just means "we can't take pharmaceutical companies' profit away when it's the biggest goldmine they've seen in the past century". They were fine before COVID
by StavrosK 6y ago
It just means "we can't take pharmaceutical companies' profit away when it's the biggest goldmine they've seen in the past century". They were fine before COVID, they'll be fine without profiteering from it.
- yogthos 6y agoThe point here is that profit has no place in things like healthcare in the first place. People's lives should not be evaluated in terms of profitability. This also results in completely wrong incentives. For example, making a treatment that can be sold repeatedly is more profitable than making a vaccine that eradicates a diseases. Profit motive is entirely at odds with what's actually desirable in this scenario.