This line of reasoning leads to: Excessively high drug prices in the US are what helps get drugs into developing nations. That $500 bottle of insulin really i

This line of reasoning leads to: Excessively high drug prices in the US are what helps get drugs into developing nations. That $500 bottle of insulin really is doing good for the people in lesser parts of the world. The strong implication being many of them would die otherwise. Same goes for our expensive and generally poor performing health care system, the argument being the most advanced high quality is best developed this way. What do these ideas mean for people in the US using GoFundMe to stay alive? A similar line involves markets and the "invisible hand", often framed as a hard fact of our reality we simply must endure, like age, gravity and the like. This line of reasoning transforms what a majority of people in the, US at least, consider priority problems that can and should, need to be solved by changing our priorities, into harsh necessities we must all endure for some distant greater good the people struggling find hard to understand matters more than they do. I find it very difficult myself, and I reject this line of thinking with prejudice! Roughly half the nation works hard only to receive less than it costs them to continue to exist and show up for work, despite their employer banking billions every year, while also enjoying a labor subsidy from the general public who pay taxes to fund assistance for those people. People struggling to afford health care, using GoFundMe to get through and continue living makes about as much sense. More people are struggling unnecessarily than not in the US, amd it is these lines of reasoning that set people who are in a position to do something about it free from caring enough to act. This line of reasoning implies a lot of harm here must be OK in order to reduce harm there, somewhere. That is damn tough to accept when profit is so very clearly a priority over people. The net good, if there is any, lies on a distant time and scale, all of which puts the idea of this all being somehow necessary in to the big bullshit bucket we should have emptied decades ago.