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The job of a company is to make money, not to protect your health. In the case of a doctor's office or hospital, protecting your health is a side effect of maki
by legerdemain 5y ago
The job of a company is to make money, not to protect your health. In the case of a doctor's office or hospital, protecting your health is a side effect of making money, because the way they can make money most efficiently is by having you pay them to protect your health. This is an elementary precept of modern economics (Friedman, et al.).
- NoahKAndrews 5y agoThat's exactly why we need governments to keep companies in check.
- legerdemain 5y agoI have trouble parsing this as anything other than a naïve desire to replace actual, time-honed economic policy with whimsical hippie daydreams.