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The moral dilemma is profiting from disease and the ill-health of a population. The only argument against publicly funded drug production is that profit seekin
by aknfffn 3y ago
The moral dilemma is profiting from disease and the ill-health of a population.
The only argument against publicly funded drug production is that profit seeking is more efficient and the societal outcome is improved by not funding a public body to do this.
As other comments highlight, not only do societies publicly fund research (eg C19), they provide a legal system that protects monopoly profits, and won’t use single-payer bargaining on price…
So when pharmaceuticals then drop more cash on executives and shareholders it’s natural to question turning Covid19, cancer, or obesity etc into a profit centre for the wealthiest in society
- carlosjobim 3y agoProfiting from hunger, those pesky cooks. Profiting from people freezing, those deplorable tailors...
- supertimor 3y agoLol, how many multi-millionaire/billionaire chefs and tailors do you know?
- carlosjobim 3y agoHow many billionaire pharmacists do you know? If you extrapolate from chefs, you have farmers and then you have Bill Gates profiting from hunger.
- aknfffn 3y agoStraw man. I pointed out that publicly provided may be more efficient, my argument wasn’t whether profit seeking is universally bad