If science was never questioned..

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I refer to Big Corp profits in general, which - in the US - passed $1 trillion in the early 2000s. See the chart here:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CP

The reason this is a serious problem in the US is the increasing rate of income inequelity (which is having serious consequences). See these charts:

https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality

[–]turtlew0rk 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Ok? So wouldn't Big Pharma be included in the those general profits? Like one of the the big major huge extravagant profits even before this pandemic, price gouging, opioid epidemic, fraudulent marketing claims and countless other crimes over the years?

None of that contributes to income inequality or serious consequences? Or not enough to risk being infected with a mild to severe virus with a low mortality rate and instead agree to endless jabs and boosts and profits and all that comes with it?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Certainly. I am against the abuses of Big pharma and Big corp and would argue that they should have received much much bigger fines for those abuses. (I am however not against science or vaccines, which are part of a global resarch project, of which US Big pharma is only a portion. And it helped to have US Big pharma in order to respond to COVID. Alternatives to this process were vaccine factories in India, China and Russia, which I think have been less regulated than the Pfizer factories.)

[–]turtlew0rk 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I am however not against science or vaccines

Me neither.

Big pharma is only a portion.

Seriously?