Ow. Wish I had some pain-killers to forget that.
Actually, I don’t want to normalize drug abuse. If you find it necessary, it’s always worth seeking help, and you have more friends than you think you do. Take action.
people should have a right to life saving drugs. Our country was designed to protect the right to profit, but not the right to live.
you have a right to develop them if you want and they are different enough from the existing ones
You can’t do human trials for an experimental drug if there’s an already-approved drug that would potentially work (which is sensible - you don’t want the patient to die if the experimental drug turns out to be worse than what was already available). This is actually one of the main things slowing cancer research, as the only people participating in trials have already gone through multiple rounds of treatment without success, and are so full of metastatised tumours and are so unwell that they’re likely to drop dead any day even if given a miracle treatment. It’s hard to get a new treatment approved if everyone who had it died afterwards, even if using it as a first-line treatment would probably save millions of lives.
last I checked there were next to no regulations on putting unregulated chemicals in your body and calling it an expirment.
I appreciate the Stirner cameo
stop trying to make me depressed with 10 year old news.
There’s no such thing as a “free market” in the USA. Like, just look at venture capital ventures: they blow a wad of cash, bloat out competition, ratchet up prices, and profit. The fact that it requires so much capital automatically dissolves most competition, not much of a free market. Also, we’d need to deregulate to have a free market because one thing that disbars competition is the hurdles to even enter the market due to regulations, but regulations are there…like safety regulations, which were written in blood and lawsuits.
I don’t call this Capitalism so much as political demonizing of “the other” - get a few beers in 'em and then ask: “well, don’t those junkies deserve to die anyway? I mean, aren’t we all better off with them gone?” And they’ll say yes, sometimes even when it’s their own brother/sister or daughter/son or father/mother who is the addict, but they get strangely quiet when it’s themselves.
How is this not capitalism? I’d love to hear the rationale there…
First tell me, concretely, what is capitalism? Who practices capitalism without distorting the hell out of it all the time? Any capitalists out there without monopoly controls? So, when you decide to and not to prevent monopolies, you’re deciding who gets to “act like a capitalist” (aka greedy pig fucker) and who doesn’t. It’s policy that’s deciding to let this happen.
Read a book dude, it’s not my job to define basic shit for you
It’s also literally how supply and demand work. Demand for the medicine is increasing, thus they raise the price. No ethics needed. That’s why it’s fucked up. Capitalism doesn’t consider the drug addicts less worth - it doesn’t consider them at all.
Yeah, but these kinds of price swings aren’t suppy and demand driven, they’re agenda driven.
