right except it is capitalism getting corrupted because if the capitalism were pure then somebody would just break the cartel and sell insulin for closer to its price of production but they can't because the cartel uses government to maintain its rentshttps://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1066790333143375872 …
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Replying to @chaosprime
isn't that just capitalism becoming purer by corrupting the market
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Replying to @jenphalian @chaosprime
I'm not convinced "pure" and "corrupted" are at all valid terms in this context. It is capitalism following it's normal progression, or, at any rate, continuing the trend identified as far back as 1916, and arguably earlier (Capital Vol III on the circulation of capital)
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Replying to @StevenBrust @chaosprime
yeah, so capitalism is doing what it's supposed to do by fucking up the market, like I said
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Replying to @jenphalian @chaosprime
Other than a trivial dispute over semantics, yeah, exactly what you said.
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Replying to @chaosprime @jenphalian
Yeah. Which I argue is, in this case, truly trivial. I could maybe be convinced I'm wrong about that.
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Replying to @StevenBrust @jenphalian
if it isn't what it's supposed to do then it would make sense to see if we can restrain it from doing that
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Replying to @chaosprime @jenphalian
Unless we understand why it is doing that, and recognize that it is inherent in the system itself. I believe that is the case, although I also believe twitter is an impossible medium for that discussion.
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