• clausetrophobic@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Fuck off with the big pharma apologetics.

    Boo hoo the corporation got millions in taxpayer money to develop a vaccine and now they have to profit off of it. I feel so bad for them.

    This is subtle astroturfing.

    • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.dev
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      1 year ago

      By that same logic: it costs a couple of cents to burn a dvd or to transfer a few gigabytes, yet games costs $60.

      All the commenter above you is saying is don’t mix up the cost to develop with the cost to mass produce,

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        I’m going to be unreasonable because I don’t like the ethics behind Pharma companies.

        They should eat the loss; their research was healthily subsidised by the taxpayer

        • FMT99@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I’m personally of the opinion that all medical research should be tax funded. But given our current situation, if you tell these companies to ‘eat the loss’ they will simply stop producing new medicines.

          • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
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            1 year ago

            Oh stop. The government should be running the pharaceutical industry then, not private companies.

            Stop simping for evil corporations that don’t give a shit about you.

          • gordon@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Oh no, whatever will we do if old dudes can’t have 6 different types of boner pills?

            • FMT99@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              It’s real easy to sit on the sidelines and spew hate. Not much of a life though.

            • Same@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              Pharma companies spend a majority of their time trying to make new unique drugs, they just fail most of the time. The ones that succeed tend to be ones that are similar to ones that succeeded in the last, which is why you get multiple drugs in the same class, but it’s not all they do. For example, we’ve essentially cured some types of cystic fibrosis, and there’s an effective vaccine for malaria now - all developed in the last 10 years.

              I don’t want to pretend that the big pharma companies aren’t evil, but they do have incentives that align with improving human health.