I see zero or fewer things wrong here. We have testing, we have it at an accessible public place, we have needed revenue generation from a corporate sponsorship. What’s the problem?
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I agree it's better than no testing It's even the way the invisible hand of capitalism is supposed to ideally work But it seems extremely perverse to stick an ad for toxic sugar water over a life-saving test. Maybe it's an aesthetic complaint. Maybe it's my neolib blood
Or maybe it's that I don't think this should be an advertising opportunity. Why isn't our government, which even under theories of limited government is supposed to exist to coordinate responses to public crises such as this one, paying for testing?
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Why does it fall to Pepsi to decide whether the benefits of advertising offset the cost of providing testing?
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A world in which we are governed by corporations and not government is, I think, a hellscape and a gateway to feudalism. I agree that in this case it has produced a result that's net beneficial to society. But Jesus, what does it say about who holds all the power in this country?
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