Auntievenim

Who'd guess the cia deputy director would raise such a gullible piece of shit

Right what are we talking about

Thank you for this. I'm not sure how it became common knowledge to assume pharma companies pay for r&d but I've seen 10 different people on this app say those exact words and it's really starting to peeve me off.

Last thing I'd do is give anyone a way to do my work without me present

You would think, but this guy didn't lmao

The important bit in the article was that he had bought it used. I'm sure its not a standard feature for brand new Tesla, but I would absolutely believe that some kind of fuckery to keep pre-owned buyers from taking advantage of the warranty is SOP. It's counting double the miles, there's no possible way for that to happen on accident unless the odometer is completely independent of the cars systems.

I'm pretty sure old odometers literally spun according to the wheels turning as you drove. If Tesla is "calculating" mileage then they would absolutely be able to just inject commands to ignore the correct algorithm and make it hit 50k as fast as possible. I'm sure most of the people they did this to weren't keen eyed enough to notice.

Certainly not all Tesla, just the ones they think they can get away with. 38k miles is not very far from 50k, they assumed he would be a rube and just suck it up when they told him his warranty was invalid.

It is the world we should live in though. And it's the one we should be advocating for instead of justifying the current system that privatizes profits of lifesaving medications and vaccines over making them widely available at the lowest possible cost to society and consumers.

We can get to the point you're talking to in your last paragraph, we just have to stop letting the people who benefit from the current system demand the conversation be centered around the impact it has on them. You and I sure as fuck don't benefit from patents. We would benefit from open source medicine. I don't really care if nobody is able to maintain a billion dollar company based off withholding and silo-ing information.

Cool great job

Im saying that the companies who currently own the IP didn't in fact pay for the development. They paid for the exclusive rights. Universities discovered and developed the new drugs, and then, since universities don't run large pharmaceutical factories, they sell that developed drug to a company to manufacture it at scale in exchange for the sole rights to be the manufacturer. The system as it stands is not like taxes, because taxes are FOR something. If we stopped giving patents to Pfizer we wouldn't stop having medicine or even stop having new medical breakthroughs, we would simply no longer have to pay $600 for a Tylenol in the hospital.

I'm glad you added that you aren't advocating for this, but this system isn't ingrained into society. It was created, and shaped this way by the companies which own the ip and benefit from nobody being able to manufacture their own cheaper versions. The result of dismantling the medical ip system would not result in zero medicine being manufactured it would result in hundreds of thousands of individual small pharmacies producing their own drugs for nearly no cost. The IP rights exist to protect entrenched capital at the very top of the market. This does not protect anyone but the rights holders and hurts everyone else by further increasing the barriers to access for the majority of the planet.

A billion dollar company has convinced you that if they don't hold exclusive rights to manufacture lifesaving medications they did not develop then all of medical research would cease. That is hilariously false.

It is, and I can't stress this enough, EXACTLY what they want to hear. Almost what they said about it, verbatim.

First of all, governments already do fund all the research.

Even in your hypothetical, thats just one government. It doesn't stop medical advancement entirely just because one dictatorship stops funding research. It moves elsewhere. When nazi germany declared that nobody would receive funding for anything outside of Aryan research ^tm the scientists just left to a country that wasn't barbarically stupid.

Also, everything in your final paragraph is stuff that is happening now, in america, under the capitalist organization of the economy which gives all the rights to a private company after publicly funding the research and development of their drugs. It makes no difference, save the fact that now the authoritarian government in power has consolidated billions of dollars for rich capitalists who will gladly accept the orders to no longer produce those medicines while remaining disgustingly wealthy.

Even if you believe in the delusional idea that private companies are funding the development of novel treatments entirely on their own the fact remains that drugs are currently, as we speak, not for all people. I am pointing out the solution to that problem, and the response was to point out how, if we did what I said, then what's already happening now would be the consequence.

I wrote a long winded reply but honestly I'll just say that your second paragraph is entirely based on fiction and your final paragraph is precisely what for profit medicine is designed to do. Profit is a purely ideological drive, medicine and healthcare do not need profits to exist. The post office does not need to make money. It exists because we HAVE to have it.

You can go see for yourself. Moderna did not single handedly make the covid vaccine. They do not and should not have the right to deny anyone the right to produce it as cheaply as necessary to provide it to their populations. I can go deeper if you want but if this doesn't show you that we are saying the same thing I'm going to have doubts about this being in good faith.