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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
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[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago (6 children)

taking all people with cancer in the world right now it's at least a couple thousands of pure profits, but if you account for all future humans it's basically giving it away for free!

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Yeah but this doesn't make you immortal so for the person to become a trillionaire in a reasonable timeframe (lets say two decades) that is a lot of dollars per treatment which goes to this inventor. Which compared to the payouts other inventors get would make him an asshole in their own class in exploiting sick people.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The hypothetical here is interesting in that it shows this commenter basically being a money maximiser. Say you're the inventor of this cure - you're the only one who understands it, basically it's magic. You have 2 choices:

  1. squeeze every patient and healthcare system for as much as they can bear. After all, this is a cure for cancer, there's an upper limit to how much people and governments are prepared to spend, just put the price $1 below that. Profit!

or you can

  1. offer the invention for free, still live a good life as a consultant or employee of a drug company, or just spend your time handling speaking engagements at $200,000 a pop, and get remembered throughout history as one of the saviors of humankind.
[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

But you see it’s your moral responsibility to earn to give™️. This means that in order to do good in the world you have to keep milking every last maximized penny out of your cancer cure. To save people. Altruism, y’see.

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