You have to be kidding. Corporations hold all the cards. They tell people what to think and they do so. In many cases, corporations hold monopolies. For one example out of zillions, look at cable TV. There are lots of companies out there that provide it. But in any one area, there is only one. Unless you're stupid enough to go with satellite TV. Which is garbage. Also, as far as all of them are concerned, try telling them that you are only interested in certain channels. And those are the only ones you want to pay for. It isn't going to happen. For the way things are now, cable TV should be paying me to have their service!
Are You A Capitalist Scumbag?
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You have to be kidding. Corporations hold all the cards. They tell people what to think and they do so. In many cases, corporations hold monopolies. For one example out of zillions, look at cable TV. There are lots of companies out there that provide it. But in any one area, there is only one. Unless you're stupid enough to go with satellite TV. Which is garbage. Also, as far as all of them are concerned, try telling them that you are only interested in certain channels. And those are the only ones you want to pay for. It isn't going to happen. For the way things are now, cable TV should be paying me to have their service!
When you say "socialist nations," in many cases you are talking about third world countries. So they don't count. There are some countries in Europe that are mostly socialist. And they are doing better than we are in many regards. And before you say it, no. I'm not going to move there. What I want is for things to be better here. Also, human nature can be a problem. But it is even worse when aspects of human nature are turned against us. That is why it has been so easy to sell "political correctness." But specism (racism) is absolutely fucking necessary! It wouldn't even exist unless there was an essential evolutionary need for it.
Fentoine Lum
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“The potential to deliver ‘one shot cures’ is one of the most attractive aspects of gene therapy, genetically-engineered cell therapy and gene editing.
However, such treatments offer a very different outlook with regard to recurring revenue versus chronic therapies,” analyst Salveen Richter wrote in the note to clients Tuesday. “While this proposition carries tremendous value for patients and society, it could represent a challenge for genome medicine developers looking for sustained cash flow.”Richter cited Gilead Sciences’ treatments for hepatitis C, which achieved cure rates of more than 90 percent. The company’s U.S. sales for these hepatitis C treatments peaked at $12.5 billion in 2015, but have been falling ever since. Goldman estimates the U.S. sales for these treatments will be less than $4 billion this year, according to a table in the report.
“GILD is a case in point, where the success of its hepatitis C franchise has gradually exhausted the available pool of treatable patients,” the analyst wrote. “In the case of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, curing existing patients also decreases the number of carriers able to transmit the virus to new patients, thus the incident pool also declines … Where an incident pool remains stable (eg, in cancer) the potential for a cure poses less risk to the sustainability of a franchise.”
There's ya a good look at american capitalism's values, from the mouth of Goldman Sachs.
You are a commodity.
http://healthimpactnews.com/2018/in...rma-sick-people-needed-to-sustain-drug-sales/
Please, do triangulate, it's been widely reported.
However, such treatments offer a very different outlook with regard to recurring revenue versus chronic therapies,” analyst Salveen Richter wrote in the note to clients Tuesday. “While this proposition carries tremendous value for patients and society, it could represent a challenge for genome medicine developers looking for sustained cash flow.”Richter cited Gilead Sciences’ treatments for hepatitis C, which achieved cure rates of more than 90 percent. The company’s U.S. sales for these hepatitis C treatments peaked at $12.5 billion in 2015, but have been falling ever since. Goldman estimates the U.S. sales for these treatments will be less than $4 billion this year, according to a table in the report.
“GILD is a case in point, where the success of its hepatitis C franchise has gradually exhausted the available pool of treatable patients,” the analyst wrote. “In the case of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, curing existing patients also decreases the number of carriers able to transmit the virus to new patients, thus the incident pool also declines … Where an incident pool remains stable (eg, in cancer) the potential for a cure poses less risk to the sustainability of a franchise.”
There's ya a good look at american capitalism's values, from the mouth of Goldman Sachs.
You are a commodity.
http://healthimpactnews.com/2018/in...rma-sick-people-needed-to-sustain-drug-sales/
Please, do triangulate, it's been widely reported.
As I was telling somebody, (maybe you) there are indeed many problems. But bringing them up goes nowhere. If they are fixed, the fix will still be on a shaky foundation. Which will lead to more problems. What needs to be done is start from a firm foundation and work your way up from there. I gave a link to a book that was all about that firm foundation. Have you seen it yet? I would challenge anybody to just scroll through it, only looking at the pictures, without becoming interested enough to start reading.
Could you say something more nonsensical?
You might choose to do what corporations tell you do, but many Americans do not. In 2017 22.2 million subscribers left cable and satellite services and in 2016 it was 16.7 million ("cord cutters"). Alternatives are available that many Americans are choosing. I don't think the cable and satellite companies are telling Americans to drop their services.
Corporations don't hold any cards if consumers do not purchase their products and services and they can't stay in business. If you really want to purchase something, they are providing a service the consumers demand. We are not all helpless to do what corporations tell us.
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See food, water, healthcare, endless war. It's a nice thought, but I'm not sure you really understand how your power stucture works.
Fentoine Lum
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And as long as all folk are willing to do is cooperate, participate and vote, there is nothing to prevent us from plumbing further depths.
Nations that are mostly socialist are primarily communist nations because socialism is the main tenet of communism. Most European nations are capitalistic with an expansive social welfare system. Social welfare is not that same as socialism which is public ownership of the means of production and distribution (industries). Countries like Sweden got rich from capitalism and use that wealth to provide social welfare programs to its citizens.
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Socialism functions very well for our aristocracy, it's just not for the unsubstantial people.
To be sure, I don't know who rated Finland's students as the most educated in the world. But I didn't hear anybody say that the Fins themselves said so. Because obviously you would have to take that with a grain of salt. As for a high suicide rate among students there, maybe it was because Finland's started letting enemy muslim sand negroes emigrate there. I know being shit on like that by my government could make me suicidal. Though I would turn more homicidal.
Also, you have to be careful about what you see on the internet. Such as with what you say about student suicide rates there. I know that when I was in high school, I hated homework. I never did it. Having the school eliminate homework would do the opposite of making me suicidal.
But the point is whether or not what Michael Moore showed was bullshit. I would have to doubt very severely that the people he talked to in his documentaries were just actors being paid to say what he wanted. Or how about the scene from "Sicko." Where an American bought some inhalers of some medicine she needed in Cuba. (Which a doctor there prescribed to her after a FREE examination) She was able to buy them at a FAR cheaper price than she could have gotten them in the U.S.
The "power structure" is an elusive term meaning whatever a person's political views want it to mean. Americans pay less (as a percentage of their income) for food and other necessities than they ever have and less than many other developed nations. What do you want food producers to do for you? You can eat out cheaply if you choose, buy and prepare your own food, grow and produce your own food. You have many choices---if you choose to eat out corporations provide you that service, but they are not making you use it.
Conservatives think the power structure is dominated by liberals (media, Hollywood, universities, Eastern elite) and liberals think it is dominated by corporations, Wall Street, and Fox news. Both seemed convinced the "power structure" is controlling their lives and telling them what to do. The most helpless of us also believe astrology, the supernatural, and other forces beyond our control are dominating our lives. Others, with a higher level of self-efficacy, believe they actually have some control over the lives.
Endless war has nothing to do with corporations based on world history.
Irish Exit
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Well that is probably true, unfortunately.....but we sure as hell better legalize euthanasia before there is a Kardashian as President or ServePro is gonna have a lot of brains to clean up off walls.
Irish Exit
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I could quote you, but that would be plagiarism
Dimwitted? Possibly. Immoral? Without a doubt. "Bought and paid for?" Without any question! But he is still better than Hillary would have been. At least he was willing to pretend that illegals were a problem. Hillary would just have dished out another massive amnesty.
Fentoine Lum
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Frankly a Kardashian is a Trump is a whatever allows a cabal of Goldman Sachs execs to remain a constant fixture in the white house regardless of electoral outcomes. The power structure has it covered "either" way.
I doubt if the aristocracy wants government ownership of the major industries in this country. The aristocracy provides the taxes that allow the government to provide social welfare programs ($1 trillion not counting Social Security and Medicare) to lower income groups.
Irish Exit
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and there it is
Fentoine Lum
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The entire planet watched the world's staunchest freemarketeers beg for socialism - and get it - across both a "conservative" and then a "liberal" administration with the same economic "advisement" team while millions lost their homes.
Sorry, the illusion doesn't hold up.
No. For back then, he was more successful than unsuccessful. At least to the tune of 1.5 million ugly (often fat) overpopulating illegal invader scab scum mexicans. Also, at today's population levels, I wonder what 1.5 million would equate to.
Another thing is that if Eisenhower had done it right, we wouldn't be having the problem with them that we are today. And today, if what I dearly wish does happen and we have another operation wet back, we should deport them back across the border the right way using many of these two devices. The same should be done for negroes somewhere off the East cost. However close they get back to Africa will be far enough.
