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Shabby Tigers's avatar

I’m in the industry (not helpfully positioned, alas) and I have tears in my eyes rn. Incredibly important piece.

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sam's avatar

This is fucking insane. The whole thing. It’s so infuriating. Searching for people to blame, it’s not people but the systems in place. If the primary motivation for medical progress is money, what are we even doing as a society?

3,000 people died in Pearl Harbor and we went to war, launched the Manhattan Project. 1.6m people per year are affected by cancer, but instead of throwing all available resources into it, we allow capitalists to call the shots?

It sure as fuck seems as though the pharmaceutical industry is more interested in keeping people sick than making them better, in the name of making more money. Where does 50% of my income go to? We are the richest country in the history of the world, and stories like this make us look like the foolish fucking chimpanzees that we are.

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