If you started doing calculations beyond "is this number greater than 0?" you've already gone way off the rails and missed the point entirely. These are generi

If you started doing calculations beyond "is this number greater than 0?" you've already gone way off the rails and missed the point entirely. These are generic drugs, so paying extra for the same amount is not creating any additional value for society, and in the short term this money could have paid for other things. It's a classic destructive enterprise, like putting a chain on a road and charging people a toll without doing any road maintenance. > it won't make any real difference on your bill It's actually insane that anyone could presumably finish middle-school math and think this. Just because you divide a number by a sufficiently large other number and arrive at a small number doesn't just mean the impact disappeared or was reduced. There are lots of people in a society. We aggregate or average out things to calculate. It means you fudged the numbers and arrived at some nonsense instead. Is the education crisis really this bad that this needs explaining to an adult?