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I don't call this Capitalism so much as political demonizing of "the other" - get a few beers in 'em and then ask: "well, don't those junkies deserve to die anyway? I mean, aren't we all better off with them gone?" And they'll say yes, sometimes even when it's their own brother/sister or daughter/son or father/mother who is the addict, but they get strangely quiet when it's themselves.
How is this not capitalism? I'd love to hear the rationale there...
First tell me, concretely, what is capitalism? Who practices capitalism without distorting the hell out of it all the time? Any capitalists out there without monopoly controls? So, when you decide to and not to prevent monopolies, you're deciding who gets to "act like a capitalist" (aka greedy pig fucker) and who doesn't. It's policy that's deciding to let this happen.
Read a book dude, it's not my job to define basic shit for you
Yeah that company made record profit because fuck junkies, lol.
You don't think the money was the primary thought and the junkies were an afterthought at best?
Oh, the junkies were definitely on their radar - analyzed for just where the sweet spot is for the price: maximum total profit. Push the price up to $50K and you'd lose more than 90% of your market...
Even in your disagreement, you describe capitalism 😂
It's also literally how supply and demand work. Demand for the medicine is increasing, thus they raise the price. No ethics needed. That's why it's fucked up. Capitalism doesn't consider the drug addicts less worth - it doesn't consider them at all.
Don't forget the fact it was the same pharmaceuticals that got people addicted to begin with...
Which is just "good business practice". If there's no demand for your product, create it.
I read your other comments and you seem informed and aware of a lot, I just don't see how you can reflect on such and decide it isn't ultimately driven by capitalism?
All of the "othering" you've witnessed and are (I think accurately) describing - that human tendency toward incoherent tribalistic behaviors and worldviews - that's baked into us, no disagreement there. But it's the capitalists who leverage it so successfully against us all and have made it the force that it is, here and today.
Like yeah the phenomena is real pretty much as you're describing, and it results from, is intentionally amplified by (doesn't just incidentally feed into) the way we are choosing to run our society. Capitalism + basic human nature = what we're all watching.
Not being a jerk. How does capitalism get off the hook as a primary cause here?
What do you mean you don’t call it capitalism? It literally is capitalism. All of those other things are just what the people doing this tell themselves to sleep at night. And its also the story you are telling yourself so that you can blame the other bad/greedy people instead of examining how this is the system working exactly as intended and you are a part of it … you even seems to be defending it (capitalism) - but profit is the social determinant for what happens in the capitalist system, thats like, its definition