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3y ago
The fossil fuel industry can exist fine without subsidies. Where else can people get cheaper fuel?
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kjghkjghkjgh
3y ago
Yes and their university medical research typically requires infrastructure and funding, which are often provided by for profit pharma corporations.
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kjghkjghkjgh
3y ago
Modern vaccines and new drugs are vastly more expensive. It costs for example over $1 billion to fund a new drug.
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kjghkjghkjgh
3y ago
Is a PE hospital profiting when it denies care too? How is that different from a lasik surgeon denying care?
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kjghkjghkjgh
3y ago
Many are but they also work with for profit pharma companies to fund the work.
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3y ago
How would vaccines and new drugs be invented without any profit incentive?
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3y ago
Should a Lasik surgeon provide Lasik to everyone regardless of their ability to pay?
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kjghkjghkjgh
3y ago
That is a "working paper" and has not been peer reviewed.
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kjghkjghkjgh
3y ago
In that scenario, the bank's profits wouldn't change so why would that affect the stock and his pay?
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3y ago
History hasn't taught you anything about communism?
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kjghkjghkjgh
3y ago
Not if you have insurance which most do.
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kjghkjghkjgh
3y ago
Well good luck with that but customers don't determine CEO pay.
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3y ago
It has actually if you understood economics.
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3y ago
The last time I was at the DMV, I waited 4 hours for a 10 minute appointment.
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3y ago
This is spoken like someone who knows nothing about Ruby.
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kjghkjghkjgh
3y ago
All of your arguments in this subthread have been ad hominem attacks.
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3y ago
99% of programming jobs outside of America must be insulting to you.
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3y ago
"The average total compensation of a Software Engineer in Spain is €55,437." "The average total compensation of a Software Engineer in Portugal is €39,094."
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4y ago
It was Moderna and they are not a grant funded university lab
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4y ago
"Shareholder primacy" led to the invention of modern vaccines and mRNA discoveries. Was this a poor longterm corporate investment?
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4y ago
Yeah, all those vaccine inventors from Harvard that became staggeringly rich are what's wrong with society. /s
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kjghkjghkjgh
4y ago
Didn't Effective Altruism recently purchase a $15,000,000 mansion to host their get togethers?
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4y ago
Aren't those state funds and not federal funds? It's a false equivalence regardless since college newspapers have a single campus audience while NPR is mainstream press. I don't believe the authors at college newspapers are t
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4y ago
What other news organizations receive government funding like NPR's?
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4y ago
Buffett owns BNSF, not Norfolk Southern. You are being very careless with your facts.
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4y ago
Your posts have zero substance. What exactly are you referring to?
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4y ago
Do you know that shipping things in trains are extremely environmentally friendly? The average BNSF worker makes $95,770 per year.
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4y ago
He's generated hundreds of billions for his investors, which include millions of small investors. In what exact way has he caused economic damage to society?
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4y ago
Warren Buffett pays "almost no tax" because he receives a $100k salary and doesn't sell his stocks.
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4y ago
Clayton Homes sells new mobile homes not "run down housing". They are like any other manufactured home builder.
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