Absolutely true! Capitalism teaches us that selfishness isn't just a virtue - it elevates it above compassion and humanity And none learned this better than the fictional people we call corporations (whose person rights we protect more fiercely than those of any poor person)
When a medical company calculates that they could make twice as much money if they charge ten times more for their drug, even though 4/5 people who need it will die because they can't afford it, that isn't capitalism getting perverted, that is capitalism perfecting itself.
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I have come to the conclusion that Capitalism is a religion, with money/capital as its god (a.k.a. Mammon). Like the pagan gods of old, Mammon requires sacrifice. The victims of these decisions *are* that sacrifice.
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Capitalism is a religious practice with market ideology and exchange metaphysics of value as its intrinsic parts.
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Maximizing profits by minimizing life is one of the main feature of this economic system.
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Fun fact: the US is the only country that doesn’t regulate drug prices. Consequently, we are the only significant market in which most investors can make their money back. If we regulate, production of new and novel drugs will decline —> other countries should deregulate.
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Then let the profit based drug industry end. It doesn't invent new drugs, it doesn't even refine old drugs, it profiteers on what should be provided freely
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That’s monopoly maximization 101, as old as market economies…
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Had an ethics class in college that taught people how to determine whether or not to recall a product based on the expected amount of settlements.
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