- 25 days
No one’s trying to “make you depressed”.
Working class apathy is absolutely a goal of the capitalists.
25 daysApathy yes. Though reducing depression to apathy is problematic. And this isn’t a post by a capitalist but a post criticisng capitalism in an anarchist community. (sorry in advance for being a pedant lol, but I feel it was sort of unfair insinuating OP and the meme had that purpose).
- 26 days
If anyone needs this information you can still get naloxene for free through some pharmacies and doctor’s offices in the USA. They ask you to fill out a questionnaire, but it doesn’t cost anything. I acknowledge this is also likely a state by state thing and it isn’t offered everywhere. Still worth asking, though!
- 25 days
I highly recommend carrying some if you can get it, you never know where you might encounter an overdose and you could save a life.
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In the USA you can arrest every CEO of every for profit company and still be sure that you did not accidentally arrest an innocent person
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In Canada I can walk into any drugstore and get a free naloxone kit. I have no drug addicts in my family and I still have one because my parents kept grabbing one when they would pickup their prescriptions lol
Wtf is going on down there buddy?
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Greedy people flocked here because they saw an opportunity to extract more money from the proletariat.
If money can be made on an activity, then it MUST be made. Murica.
- 26 days
It’s also literally how supply and demand work. Demand for the medicine is increasing, thus they raise the price. No ethics needed. That’s why it’s fucked up. Capitalism doesn’t consider the drug addicts less worth - it doesn’t consider them at all.
- 26 days
Don’t forget the fact it was the same pharmaceuticals that got people addicted to begin with…
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Which is just “good business practice”. If there’s no demand for your product, create it.
- 26 days
That’s not true. Look at similar spikes in insulin and other lifesaving medicines, for example.
- 26 days
We have plenty of capacity to make all the insulin we need and more, it’s a more profitable business when there’s short supply. We have an infinite capacity for greed.
Exactly, that is free market capitalism.
What agenda do you think drove the “masks are for sissies” COVID response?
That one I’m not sure about, but I can’t think of a way it’s money related. However, the prevalence and cost of masks definitely went up during the pandemic, as most people did mask up. Some other supplies also went up in price, like microphones and cameras for computers as everyone started working from home.
- 26 days
That wasn’t my experience in Floriduh.
It depends heavily on the location. It was basically split right down party lines. Blue areas were like 90% masked, red areas were like 90% unmasked.
Just use the tiniest bit of imagination…
I’m trying not to stoop to the level of conspiracy theories. Even so, I don’t think your explanation makes any sense. How would the younger generations, especially those without money, contribute to the right wing propaganda that championed anti-masking ideas? Not to mention that most people care about their relatives for more than just their money.
The whole anti-masking things makes more sense to me as part of the long-running trend of anti-science propaganda from the right. Maybe that’s driven by oil companies because anti-science attitudes drive climate change denialism. But it also might just be the effects of the social issues that spun off of these things.
One curious anechdote - my dad was heavily questioning masking during COVID but I don’t remember him questioning masking when our town was full of smoke from wildfires from a few hundred miles north.
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- 26 days
What do you mean you don’t call it capitalism? It literally is capitalism. All of those other things are just what the people doing this tell themselves to sleep at night. And its also the story you are telling yourself so that you can blame the other bad/greedy people instead of examining how this is the system working exactly as intended and you are a part of it … you even seems to be defending it (capitalism) - but profit is the social determinant for what happens in the capitalist system, thats like, its definition
- PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish25 days
I read your other comments and you seem informed and aware of a lot, I just don’t see how you can reflect on such and decide it isn’t ultimately driven by capitalism?
All of the “othering” you’ve witnessed and are (I think accurately) describing - that human tendency toward incoherent tribalistic behaviors and worldviews - that’s baked into us, no disagreement there. But it’s the capitalists who leverage it so successfully against us all and have made it the force that it is, here and today.
Like yeah the phenomena is real pretty much as you’re describing, and it results from, is intentionally amplified by (doesn’t just incidentally feed into) the way we are choosing to run our society. Capitalism + basic human nature = what we’re all watching.
Not being a jerk. How does capitalism get off the hook as a primary cause here?
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We just watched a guy become a trillionaire and dump 200 million dollars into an election for the most powerful seat on the planet. But you don’t think the problem is capitalism???
- 25 days
You’re confusing religion with economic systems of government.
Capitalism and communism very much have definitions. Don’t let your governments obfuscation of words cloud your mind.
- MangoCats@feddit.itBanned17 hours
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We don’t have free unfettered capitalism, there are price controls, labor regulations
And people literally had to die to get them. You do understand that, right? Those regulations, however meagre they may be, are written in blood.
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- PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish25 days
You seem to just be using your own definitions of capitalism and communism. It’s probably not worth bickering much about, but what you’re saying doesn’t make sense. Not in the way where I think you’re wrong and I disagree, in the way that your argument isn’t coherent enough to refute.
- PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish25 days
Labels like capitalism and communism are more window dressing than actual function
Nah fam. There’s no point in labeling sets of ideas if they’re rendered useless the moment they diverge from your imagined “pure” form. Being more complicated in practice than just a simple textbook definition doesn’t mean they aren’t “that” defined thing, it means textbook definitions are always fundamentally weak and flawed. Oversimplifications, models used to describe, not blueprints used to build.
Capitalism is roughly everywhere, underpinning everything globally because of its roaring success. Communism is roughly nowhere, for the same reasons of capitalism’s overwhelming power.
The distinctions exist and matter.
- PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish24 days
“Democratic”, now there is a very slippery word in any country lol. Regardless, Russia is not communist, I don’t know what you think you’re pointing out. Let’s go ahead and drop it yeah?
- 25 days
Yeah that company made record profit because fuck junkies, lol.
You don’t think the money was the primary thought and the junkies were an afterthought at best?
- 24 days
It’s capitalism.
Regardless of whatever mental gymnastics you need to do for your own sanity, this is what capitalism is and has always been.
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people should have a right to life saving drugs. Our country was designed to protect the right to profit, but not the right to live.
you have a right to develop them if you want and they are different enough from the existing ones
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You can’t do human trials for an experimental drug if there’s an already-approved drug that would potentially work (which is sensible - you don’t want the patient to die if the experimental drug turns out to be worse than what was already available). This is actually one of the main things slowing cancer research, as the only people participating in trials have already gone through multiple rounds of treatment without success, and are so full of metastatised tumours and are so unwell that they’re likely to drop dead any day even if given a miracle treatment. It’s hard to get a new treatment approved if everyone who had it died afterwards, even if using it as a first-line treatment would probably save millions of lives.
last I checked there were next to no regulations on putting unregulated chemicals in your body and calling it an expirment.
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There’s no such thing as a “free market” in the USA. Like, just look at venture capital ventures: they blow a wad of cash, bloat out competition, ratchet up prices, and profit. The fact that it requires so much capital automatically dissolves most competition, not much of a free market. Also, we’d need to deregulate to have a free market because one thing that disbars competition is the hurdles to even enter the market due to regulations, but regulations are there…like safety regulations, which were written in blood and lawsuits.
Wasn’t it Martin Shekreli or another asswipe said that it was a moral duty of pharma makers to charge as much as possible for medication?
- 25 days
B-Bu… But Steam is loading a few percentages faster now because of competition from Epic Games Launcher…
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Steam does not participate in the free market because it’s not publicly traded
- 24 days
Of course Steam participates in the (so called) “free market.”
The company itself (that would be Valve) isn’t publicly traded, but that doesn’t mean anything about the market(s) they participate in.
