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zeppo , in Florida family awarded $800K after McDonald's Chicken McNugget burned 4-year-old girl
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I would let a nugget burn the fuck out of me for $800,000.

xc2215x ,

Same here.

reddig33 , in [The Conversation] - Blame capitalism? Why hundreds of decades-old yet vital drugs are nearly impossible to find

The feds should be producing generic drugs in the states:

  • ensures supply
  • ensures quality
  • creates jobs
  • fills gaps for drugs that are no longer profitable
  • contributes to national security
  • creates competition
  • lowers costs
pizza_rolls ,
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I think California is moving this way. They started producing their own insulin and suddenly everyone is reducing the price of their insulin to $30 a dose or whatever CA was charging. Let's do it with more

MyOpinion , in [The Conversation] - Blame capitalism? Why hundreds of decades-old yet vital drugs are nearly impossible to find

I highly recommend that you do blame capitalism because we live in a capitalist society. They claim to have the solution to our physical needs, it is a failed system.

realcaseyrollins , in [The Conversation] - Blame capitalism? Why hundreds of decades-old yet vital drugs are nearly impossible to find

In a free market, people would be able to get any drug they like.

I'm presuming that over-regulation in the wrong way might be the cause here. But the problem is, markets carrying necessities tend to exploit customers when there's no competition, so I'm not sure that deregulation should be the move either.

ChaoticEntropy ,
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In a free market, people can get any drug that provides sufficient profit margins to justify the market producing it. If scarcity needs to be induced to bring the profit margins up to an acceptable level… the market is free to do so.

twistypencil , in Only 1% of US Homes Have Changed Hands So Far This Year, Redfin Says

This is why I can’t find a house that isn’t a shit hole

zlatiah , in [The Conversation] - Blame capitalism? Why hundreds of decades-old yet vital drugs are nearly impossible to find
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Great article... Pharmaceuticals is interesting since the needs of corporations functioning under capitalism and their customers disconnect a lot

  • Making effective drugs is mad expensive (billions of USD), so companies are strongly incentivized to squeeze as much profit as possible everywhere on top of the already bad enough corporate greed levels
  • Thanks to patents, new drugs are almost always monopolies, so the pharma who makes the drug can charge (almost) as much as they want and make a lot
  • Whereas making drugs without patents is not profitable as the article suggested... so these are done mostly by factories based in India and other not fully developed countries
  • Funnily enough most ppl need cheaper generic drugs, not the ones most pharma companies are innovating and will make mad profits from
  • And for the people mentioned above, pharmaceuticals are basically a need not a luxury, but somehow it's dependent on the ebbs and flows of free market capitalism

My unhinged opinion is... Most of the pharmaceuticals research are done by (mostly) publicly-funded research labs anyways... so might as well just let the government do something about this? I wouldn't be surprised if some folks in academia wouldn't mind moonlighting as CEO at a nonprofit drug manufacturer or sth

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    the_real_monte ,
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    Stopthatgirl7’s title is better.

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    pizzaiolo , in Pooping only every 3 or more days linked with cognitive decline, research finds

    Eat your fiber, folks

    shotgun_ninja , in Trump stole Israeli artifacts from White House

    You mean Palestinian artifacts?

    shotgun_ninja , in Xi Jinping meets Henry Kissinger as US seeks to defrost China ties

    Send Kissinger to Cambodia. If he comes back alive, send him back.

    tal , in Burglary suspect picks wrong house as homeowners, both armed, swiftly shoot him
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    The sheriff said the homeowners then disarmed the suspect, who was later identified as 62-year-old James F. Garrett of Seneca, and held him until deputies arrived.

    I don't normally expect to hear about burglars in their 60s.

    HebrewHammer , in Trump stole Israeli artifacts from White House

    Lol can’t believe rollingstone is still alive…

    ilovededyoupiggy , in St. Louis police have failed to solve nearly 60% of homicides committed since 2017
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    So if you want a better than a coin flip chance at getting away with murder, apparently you should look into St Louis.

    oshaboy , in Trump stole Israeli artifacts from White House

    Moshe Dayan: “That’s my boy”

    curiousaur , in Only 1% of US Homes Have Changed Hands So Far This Year, Redfin Says

    Why would anyone sell after buying or refinancing at a rate lower than inflation?

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