3$ insulin is at best a shitty compromise.
it costs about 3 dollars to produce, there’s no patent anymore, it’s just their monopoly.
the rest of the world pays 3 $ or less.
only in the US there can be a compromise where a company gets to charge so much for basic life saving medications… and yes considered a massive improvement.
“Diary of a madman” is a short story from 1918 by Chinese author Lu Xun. It describes a man who falls ill and begins to read Confucian texts obsessively until, to his horror, he can see the words “Eat People” written between the lines. It’s a timeless classic about the horror that comes from awakening to an unjust culture, realizing how all the pillars of your society have licensed it, and even your friends and neighbors are complicit in supporting that which everyone knows to be self-evidently wrong (Cannibalism, which the publisher notes reveal is not entirely a delusional hallucination or a metaphor, but an actual social ill taking place then)
The narrator continues to unravel as he next realizes his own complicity within soceity, but as foretold in the prologue, ends optimistically, with him resolving to struggle to build a fair soceity for future generations and finally recovering from his illness and leaving his village to serve as an official.
Here’s another one for you!
Statement: “We’re going to expand coverage through a public private partnership, to better serve our communities!”
Translation: “We will divert an endless stream of public funds into an unaccountable private sector, for profit, black box, fueling the demands for infinite growth and austerity, which will better serve our community of investors who helped write this bill.”
OR here is a real life example:
Statement:
“The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.”
— Obama, July 17th, 2007, Speech to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.Translation:
“Now, the Freedom of Choice Act is not my highest legislative priority. I believe that women should have the right to choose, but I think that the most important thing we can do to tamp down some of the anger surrounding this issue is to focus on those areas that we can agree on. And that’s where I’m going to focus.”
— Obama, April 29th, 2009, First 100 Days news conference.I love the design of this. It really evokes that old text book vibe. Totally fooled me right up till the end. Love the little black line hexbear at the bottom.
Logical fallacy. Second part assumes that the people advocating for change are able to arbitrarily change things (they aren’t). $35 is a LOT of harm reduction from what it currently is.
Edit: dear Lord the amount of people who willingly don’t want to do their due diligence when operating on a platform where bots, foreign agents, etc. can all operate. This is why democracy is falling apart in the U.S. people like y’all who don’t take a few seconds to think about an argument.
NOT SO FAST KAIBA, YOU’VE ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD!
“Do something good for once!”
“Aw well uh actually we will compromise it down to a respectable ‘somewhat less monstrous than the status quo’ and then do that.”
“Are you actually going to do even that much?”
“No.”
What smells?
I bet you look ugly, and if we listen to you, we’ll need to listen to even uglier people down the road.
