• TheKingBee@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I guess i’m getting that from when you first said,

    but in a truly free market capitalist system

    I just assumed you were defending a “truly free market” capitalism.

    to address what you just posted,

    is it appropriate to blame capitalism when a public corporation in collusion with the government is at fault for an issue? If not, why?

    yes, capitalism creates the conditions for that collusion. It allows entities with the only goal of profit at any cost.

    removing the government doesn’t reduce that corruption it just allows it to go unchecked without even an illusion of protection to the public.

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      1 year ago

      yes, capitalism creates the conditions for that collusion.

      Focus on what capitalism means when you say this, and focus on the context you’re saying this in. Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production, and we are discussing medicine. So, what you’re saying, is that the private control of medicine created the conditions for government collusion with a public corporation, This does not make sense, because public corporations are not private. This is corporatism, not capitalism.

      removing the government doesn’t reduce that corruption

      Then it’s the governments job to allow private entities some avenue to produce medicine. They can do so by not enforcing patents on helpful medicine that empowers corporations.