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    Re: Pfizer aim for 10,000 percent markup on vaccine Archived Message

    Posted by John Monro on November 11, 2022, 7:07 pm, in reply to "Pfizer aim for 10,000 percent markup on vaccine"

    That's what capitalists do. Indeed, we are told corporate managers are duty bound to maximise the return to their shareholders (and to hell with the consequences). Blaming corporate managers for profiteering is like blaming the brain of a bear for tearing apart a human rival in the forest or a fox for causing chaos in the chicken coop. Yet the people at the top are human beings, presumably in other parts of their lives living a virtuous, though privileged, family and social life, yet two of the greatest failings of humanity, greed and cognitive dissonance, (or perhaps more accurately in this case, double-think as this dissonance doesn't actually seem to cause any mental stress), allow them to behave like the bear or the fox at other times. Taken to extreme this corporate amorality is the same as in any murderous dictator you'd ever care to mention.

    The ultimate culprits here are politicians in not dealing to these corporations and controlling this behaviour, whether Amazon, old companies, drug companies, internet corporations, media companies etc. . Their motives and excuses or rationalisations are various, for some its political cowardice, for some its straightforward political ideology, for others it's being bought off, and for many just intellectual and moral laziness - anything to preserve status and income. .

    We are presently living in a corporatocracy - an ever more voracious monster killing our societies and the planet we live on. I see not a glimmer of hope from any present political system that there's any will to change this. I suspect we're heading quickly for societal breakdown and revolt, and the outcome of this can never be predicted. The corporatocracy may go, but what will replace it? Nothing very nice seems likely.

    Cheers all, I hope you're all at least warm enough and well fed enough to get through the UK winter without too much stress. I hope further there's a national strike organised this winter to force the Tories to hold a general election, and to demand electoral and political (such as lobbying and party donations) reform.

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