Companies like Eli Lilly, Merck, GSK, Bristol-Meyers Squibb cause and perpetuate massive amounts of human suffering. I view them on the same level as Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Input?
Companies like Eli Lilly, Merck, GSK, Bristol-Meyers Squibb cause and perpetuate massive amounts of human suffering. I view them on the same level as Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Input?
8.6 million a year is a ridiculous, tragic number, but think for a second what the cost of American imperial hegemony is. That’s a throne of literal billions of skulls once you consider climate change. Is it Caesar’s corpse with all of capital’s knives each stuck in various directions? Absolutely, pharma emits as much as anyone, but the ones responsible for empire carry the most blame. To that end, I think we can cite Lenin’s Imperialism to call out finance capital as also just as ghoulish and even more responsible for climate collapse than the MIC. No single part of capital, not even the Lockheed vampires, carries as much political power as the finance demons. Those are the ones with their finger hammered down on the button that kills us all.
Yeah I guess what I’m getting at is that us making healthcare for-profit and a commodity is just an extension of the hegemony.
Quite a disgusting society we have built.