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jbt1980's avatar

Sometimes a snow needs to fall to see the tracks of the beasts: COVID certainly revealed the tracks of big pharma predators and how much real power they have as opposed to nominal power of regulators and "elected officials". In little over 10 years Pfizer went from example of biggest fraudsters in US corporate history (actually causing thousands of deaths), to "saviors" around which all government policies were wrapped up to give them monopolistic advantage.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-largest-health-care-fraud-settlement-its-history

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Katie's avatar

If I understand your discussion correctly, you seem to have provided more evidence of the state-corporate nexus being reversed: it seems that rather than states chartering corporations granting them certain rights and retaining the right to revoke their charter, now corporations rule the world, dictating to the state what the corporations will and will not do. This is especially egregious when taxpayer dollars are given to the corporation to fund the development of a product and then the corporation prices the product to generate 'excess' profits. Seems a lot like what Sheldon Wolin called Democracy, Inc.

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