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> We shouldn’t blame companies for doing what’s financially best for them; we should change the rules to align what’s best for them with what’s best for the res
by klabb3 3y ago
> We shouldn’t blame companies for doing what’s financially best for them; we should change the rules to align what’s best for them with what’s best for the rest of us.
Why not both? Corporations that size are actively working to change, skirt and fight the rules in their favor. This idea that the elected make the rules in a vacuum and companies are just following them isn’t true in reality.
If we insist on having the market be responsible for drug development, it should work for us. We should be leveraging the benefits of market based capitalism in order to achieve a desirable outcome. Standing on the sidelines and hoping for side effects of profit-seeking to trickle down both dogmatic and defeatist. The best way to do markets is competition. And the best way to have competition is a lot of independent companies. A few mega-corps is more like institutions than markets. And the prices follow.