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Re:How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M by mistrial9 on Friday March 18, 2022 @03:55PM (#30726754)
no, no - this is a real-estate Zillow thread BUT.. search for "pharma bros" and you will see this is not a fanciful example
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Re:How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M by briHass on Saturday March 19, 2022 @08:00AM (#30733090)
Yeah, but much like housing shortages, the classic cases of 'pharma bros' (Shkreli, et. al) is due in large part to the government. He, specifically, was able to jack prices because his company owned the patents (gov issued and controlled) and manufacturing license (gov issued) to rare but important drugs.
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