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It makes no difference whether or not he was the "creator" or "innovator". What does matter is that he now owns it and is completely within his right to sell, price, and distribute it as he sees fit. It's called buying market share. How is it any different than when-say one airline buys up another? It's instant, overnight ability to establish a presence and exert some influence and pricing power in the desired market(s).
This is about "Current" Events. The event being this hedge fund manager price gouging on something he didn't even create or innovate.
Just like I said, the topic isn't about you.
This is a serious problem that can cause people to make tough choices of paying rent, eating, etc vs living. AIDS is still a life threatening disease that can cause death unless medicated properly.
Your attempts to hijack it to tell us yet again about your silly pretend "movement" against a pretend "issue" speaks greatly to its complete irrelevancy.
It makes no difference whether or not he was the "creator" or "innovator". What does matter is that he now owns it and is completely within his right to sell, price, and distribute it as he sees fit. It's called buying market share. How is it any different than when-say one airline buys up another? It's instant, overnight ability to establish a presence and exert some influence and pricing power in the desired market(s).
Because that's a lawyer's definition and this is real life.
You can't buy certain things.
Try buying up all the water. Or ALL the food. Or some other necessity and price gouging and see what happens.
I say this as a business man. That doesn't even make sense for a society. So no rational lawmaker would ever allow this to happen in a society where we are forced to share resources since birth.
You should amend your statement. Not every country is as peaceful as South Africa and the Philippines. Most are violent and know no other way.
No country is as violent as the United States, as Martin L King stated "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own Government...I cannot be silent."
How can you compare a life saving drug to the price of a automobile, it boggles my mind.
That someone may "need" what I have in no way creates an obligation on my part to provide it to them at a price that they, or you, deem acceptable. Such an idea boggles my mind.
I need to turn a profit is the defacto go to excuse for rich white folks raping the common man. The pill costs a dollar to make and probably 5-10 bucks in additional costs. This demon could easily make a profit charging 30-50 bucks for it, but whites, being the lecherous soul less scavengers they are, saw an opening and decided to go for the jugular.
The truth of the matter is the extreme wealthy and corporations are the biggest welfare queens.
Between tax loopholes and subsidies they pay very little tax or no tax at all while getting millions in tax returns, we the people have to make up the difference.
Do you always just make stuff up? What you are claiming is simply not true.
He may have paid for the patent but he didn't create a damn thing. And honestly, people should just show up where he lives until the price drops.
No stretch at all. Creating something isn't the only way to own property. That may be tough for you to understand, but it is pretty basic. If you buy a can of Coca-Cola, you paid for it, and you own it. It is your property, even though you didn't create it.
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