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> Pharma makes more from diseases occurring, agriculture makes more from diseases undetected. This is actually not true. Pharma is incredibly dependent on accu
by legitster 1y ago
> Pharma makes more from diseases occurring, agriculture makes more from diseases undetected.
This is actually not true. Pharma is incredibly dependent on accurate CDC data. Same with agriculture, unless you think farmers are looking forward to the screwworm epidemic.
This benefits nobody except for the president, direct lackeys that will do his bidding, and maintaining his cult of personality. Even the powerful elites who helped put him here were themselves conned.
- quantified 1y agoThe elites were not conned. They knew this is where it was going. We all did. They just want the money. Their silence and inaction is all you need to see. There are far more of these elites than there are of Trump and his administration should they care to act. He governs by the consent of the governed. Until he's got troops and ICE police everywhere, and is in the major boardrooms. Then consent is not as relevant. But it sounds like the capital class is fine with Trump taking stakes and demanding revenue slices.
- jfengel 1y agoIt also benefits the cult members, by the only metric that matters to them: humiliating their perceived opponents. For example, the farmers may not like the screwworms, but they voted for Trump three times already and are hoping to do so for a fourth. If people believed that they were being conned, the problem would be self-limiting. But the cult of personality continues to go gangbusters, and shows no sign of ending any time soon.