• mefisdo_dot_info@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    No, of course my criticism was pointed at the existence of the inequality, not at the importance of medical research. Realistically however this is exactly how it goes down: billionaires will hoard the new cures, partly because they will be expensive, partly as a status symbol. For the latter, they will actively prevent it from reaching the masses, as long as they can, otherwise it stops being a status symbol.

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      2 days ago

      Point to a single medical advance that is being hoarded by the billionaires (outside of the US, because the US health system is a shit show).

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        1 day ago

        I can’t, and it will sound like conteo, but Trump likely suffered a couple of strokes and he’s brought back to a reasonably active state every time. I don’t know what happened to Mitch McConnell, but it is probably very close to necromancy. Treatment like this doesn’t really exist for the regular population. If you get a stroke, you’re out of action for at least several months, probably never to come back as you were before, ever.

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          1 day ago

          You’re suggesting that the medical research community around the entire world, most of whom hate Trump’s guts, are hiding information about new treatments just to benefit him. Instead of cashing in on the knowledge.

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                1 day ago

                The experience of the last decade or so has been that in a lot of cases where there was smoke there was fire. I remember laughing at nutjobs who claimed the rich and powerful are participating in pedophiliac orgies. That a surveillance state is being built out. That insider trading is frequent. That oil companies suppress climate research. Etcetera.