• moonshadow@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    Interesting such an old, trite example went over your head. Classic for a reason and very true imo. Filament lightbulbs were engineered to burn out regularly and require replacement, that doesn’t make the point you’re going for. Broad spectrum antibiotics breed resistant strains and require new formulations, especially when aggressively marketed and overprescribed because more use=more money. Again not a great example. Vaccine development has historically been funded and promoted by government as a cost-effective way of maintaining a workforce, not exactly a shining endorsement of profit motive. I’m genuinely having a hard time believing you’re dumb enough to make these arguments in good faith and kinda done here

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      2 days ago

      Classic move—attacking me because your argument ran out of steam.

      Your philistine viewpoint is still under researched and, frankly, unknowledgeable.

      Your points don’t make sense. Let’s dig into bulbs, antibiotics and Vaccines from a $ perspective.

      Filament light bulbs are gone because someone else sold a more efficient bulb and changed the market…and made boat load of cash and literally made filament bulbs extinct. $

      Penicillin and later antibiotics cured deadly infections that once required long hospital stays. These cures transformed modern medicine and became some of the most profitable drugs ever sold.$

      Lastly my Vaccines example, Smallpox required endless isolation facilities and caretaking. The vaccine eliminated an entire global disease. It was also massively funded, widely purchased, and financially successful for its creators.$