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It's simple: teach everyone to make everything they need for themselves, so they can't be expoited
Sure bro lemme teach my aunt to make her insulin, her own needles, her own glucose test strips and all that cheers
There is a group actively working to open source Insulin manufacturing to make it practical to self produce.
That's good work for a lot of reasons, but there's a world of difference between "open source and theoretically DIY" and it being anywhere near realistic for everyone to actually do it themselves.
It's good that I have access to advanced technology without having to have learned how to build it from the ground up. That's the whole point of civilization -- doing more together than we could do apart.