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5 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 6h \ on: Gen X quiz. What do you score? culture
Whatever, I don't care.
I obviously win now
You just offered a false choice. You're saying you either have to have gouging by middle men, or allow the government to do everything.
The truth of the matter is that people buying all of the supply before disaster affected areas can get it isn't helping.
That's a fairly tale explication. In reality, gougers often intercept peoduct that would have otherwise gotten to its destination but they corner the market in a time of high demand.
Even in the example given of the guy gouging hand sanitizer, he wasn't facilitating getting it to people faster. He was slowing down the process by inserting himself as an unneeded middle man for profit.
So to discourage over buying, we allow one person to over buy, and profit off of a disaster....
To be clear, you're defending people who gouge bottled water simply because they had the foresight to know people would be dying of dehydration?
Absolutely not, and I couldn't disagree more. Maybe you've never suffered through a natural disaster, or don't know anyone who has, but gouging isn't helping anyone.
It's literally standing in between life saving supplies and end users for profit, there's nothing benevolent about it.
That actually sounds pretty good. Do you think your mom will make some for me on my birthday too? It only seems fair...
I'm a pharmaceutical company. I released a drug and have patent protection, I have no competition. My patent protection is running out, so I change the delivery method. Reset the clock.
My patent protection is running out so I get it approved as a treatment for something else. Reset the clock.
Wait, it can treat a third thing? Reset the clock.
Generic medicine is highly suppressed
There's nothing free market about pharmaceutical companies. There's tons of "patent protection" laws that suppress generic drugs. The entire industry is over regulated, and the FDA creates massive delays, and hurdles to jump over.
It there were a free market, there would already be a competitor for daraprim and this type of behavior wouldn't be tolerated.
To be clear. You think im @Coinsreporter, I run that account and this account, I post on them both every single day, and because I'm one person I doubled the volume of my comments. I've mantained double the comments for months on end. And you think I did all of this to make you like me....
You caught me red handed. I'm both people, I created an elaborate identity as a truck driver from Wisconsin to fool you and you saw right through me.
Never try to fool Darths guts, they never fail. I hope that's a lesson to every other stacker....