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Re:How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Gov... by realce on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @11:27PM (#41921489)
How many medicines are required just to treat issues brought on by unrepentant greed in other industries? Does Ozempic treat obesity and diabetes or does it treat the lack of regulation in food quality and advertising? How much cancer is an outcome of greed in exchange for disregarding public health, how much depression is the outcome of greed and economically-produced hopelessness, on and on.

How have so many people lost their hearts and minds to this tail-chasing madness?

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Re:How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Gov... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @02:56AM (#41922536)
The median human is vastly healthier today than any time before industrialisation.
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Re:How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Gov... by realce on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @09:33AM (#41924913)
The comment we're both responding to is about the validity of modern pharmaceutical research and what kinds of medicines they produce as an outcome of US federal government investment. "Before industrialization" is over 400 years ago.
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Re:How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Gov... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @03:12PM (#41928367)
Sure. The median human today is vastly healthier than before WWII. The median American is vastly healther today than pre-War.
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Re:How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Gov... by realce on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @05:28PM (#41929406)
None of these statements relate to the comment thread you're responding to IMO. Are you saying that the median human today is "vastly" "healthier" because of medications developed by American pharmaceutical companies, that they are "healthier" because of medications created to alleviate the outcomes of pollution/greed? What point of the discussion said humans are not healthier than they once were?
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