• ryannathans@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Soo why sell the patent for $1 and have it be potentially exploited when you could hold onto it and licence use for free?

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      4 months ago

      IIRC the insulin being sold now is manufactured differently and the patents are completely different anyway

      But overall your point is good

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    If you talk about killing the few people like these that are the root cause of all these problems, you’re a terrorist. You go to jail

    These people actually kill people by the thousands, millions, and we call them smart CEO’s and celebrate them 🥂

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    Meanwhile, 10 euros per vial here in Europe. At least his original plan for widespread and easy availability has partially succeeded.

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      In brazil 36 reais (about 6 euro). The US is a joke. (And im 99% sure you can also get it for free if you use the public health network)

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        I have mental health disabilities in the USA and my meds are at zero cost because I literally have had absolute zero income for the past 5 years.

        You wouldn’t believe how much those mood stabilizer/antidepressant cocktails stack up proportionally when I was able to scrape by on $15 an hour.

        The system set me up to fail with how shitty it is, if healthcare wasn’t crap I could be contributing to society without crippling myself.

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    Canadians: invented drug and patent it freely

    Americans: Finds way to kill the most people possible while making the most amount of money

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      To be fair, the killing isn’t the point; they’re the product. Its just that profit is God, so killing in its name is justified.

      Killing poors for the joy of it? That’s just an evil bonus.

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    I wonder if all the sane Americans did a mass exodus to Canada, Europe, UK, Australia etc, what effect that would have

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      Have you looked into what it takes to get a permanent visa to one of those countries? It’s not easy.

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          It is that hard, I’ve looked. You typically need to rank highly on a skill list AND have a relatively well-paying job offer. And if you think it’s hard interviewing in your own country, it’s far worse interviewing outside of it.

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      A lot of us would need financial sponsorship. So there’d be a literal financial drain on those economies.

      I still would like to sign up.

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        Not if you stayed, then it’s an investment. Money doesn’t just disappear when goes to poor people, they use it to buy things like food and stuff. It would only be a financial drain if you were sending that money back home.

        The North American mind cannot comprehend the benefits of supporting the poor.

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    Naive question from a european: Aren’t there companies on the market who can offer a cheaper price and therefore beat greedy competitors?

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        Doesn’t work when people don’t get to choose not to take it when it gets too expensive! That thing that capitalists always forget about: necessities.

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          Every time someone talks about you being supposedly free to choose where to work they should get instant diarrhea. Let alone medicine of course, that’s a hard dependence.

          Nobody is truly free without proper UBI and free healthcare and good public transport. Only then true freedom can exist.