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Re:McKinsey Proposed Paying Pharmacy Companies Rebates for O... by ashtonkem on Friday November 27, 2020 @08:39PM (#25234355)
Anyone who says that seriously is someone to be steered way the hell away from, that’s way too sociopathic for my comfort.
Re:McKinsey Proposed Paying Pharmacy Companies Rebates for O... by AmericanChopper on Friday November 27, 2020 @09:06PM (#25234507)
I would suggest that projecting evil motives onto others implies a far greater sociopathic tendency. Keep in mind that all of the worst things we’ve managed to accomplish as a species tended to start with dehumanization as the first enabling step.

I’d also suggest that this comment would also necessarily include dismissing just about every psychologist, philosopher or ethicist who studies the nature of self-interested motives as being a sociopath as well.

If you really wanted to be cynical however, I’d suggest you start by asking who’s benefitting from us having this conversation. I’d say it’s the regulators, and to a greater extent the executives who have been in charge of those regulators, who are the people statutorily responsible for these failures. I can’t imagine how happy they’d be with us debating how culpable big pharma and their management consultants are for it.