Foxnews has a whole demographic of old people who watch. Its a base and speaking negatively about drug pricing can only help their ratings.
I never said I agree with what they are doing. I only understand the engine behind it and that engine goes far beyond drugs. Shouldnt people have cheap food, gas housing. .. yes. All great ideas, all noble ideas. Make it easier for people to live. A chicken in every pot. Pot in every chicken...
But thats not what drives innovation. That ls not what drives technology to adapt and evolve quickly. And it is the quickness in which these things move that will make a world like that possible one day. Its just nit going to be in our lifetimes even though we are on the precipice of it. Corporations are creating the items needed to do this even though they dont see that in the end game they will become obsolete. A perfect example is 3D printers. People dont have to take ideas to corporations any more to bring them to the public. They can create their ideas at home. Jumpstart. People dont ha e to rhn their ideas through corporations anymore. They can give them directly to the public and see if the public wants to make it happen.
We are one the verge. All brought to you by technology originally funded by corporations.
I never said that money has never driven industry.
In fact, it has and does.
I mean, remember learning about supply and demand in HS?
I’m not saying that we should all just join hands and sing Kumbaya (sp?), and that everything should be free to all.
That is this vision you seem to think I have in my head, that just isn’t there I’m sorry to say.
We can certainly talk about our visions of a Utopian society and how they differ but this thread is about an ethical line being crossed.
Money is not the only driver of innovation…just as you yourself just wrote, things like 3D printers and more widespread internet access will hopefully see some great innovations created.
Jonas Salk the guy who created the Polio vaccine did it purely for altruistic reasons and continues to save thousands of lives every single year.
And I don’t have a problem with someone being successful at all.
But it’s the mentality that people like the Papa John have (besides disgusting pizza, I boycott them).
It’s the mentality that you don’t need to give back when you become successful…and they’re right, they are not obligated to give back by raising employee salaries, or benefits….in fact Papa John is now famous for fighting as hard as he can to NOT give his employees healthcare.
It was his hard work, but also the hard work or all his employees that made his chain successful.
Same goes for Wal-Mart and the Walton family….they didn’t do anything but inherit it from granddad.
The very least they could do would be to pay their employees enough that they don’t have to be on SNAP benefits while working full-time.
Especially when they make Billions in profits every year and are the single richest family in the US.
Economists have even shown that it would take a minuscule amount per trip to the checkout…like you would have to pay an extra 10 cents per trip to give the employees enough of a raise to not need food stamps.
Manufacturing is not coming back to the US.
We have to figure out where the jobs are going to come from….I say, let them fix the nearly 65,000 + bridges that are deemed “unsafe”.
Where will the money come from? How about if we actually tried taxing people like huge fund managers, or instead of giving Shell Oil huge tax breaks while they pollute our coasts and keep prices artificially high at the pump, all while making Billions in profits each year greater than the last.
Why are they getting tax breaks that equates to the government giving them millions of dollars of taxes collected from working class America?
They aren’t even a US company, and I don’t hate Shell, my Dad worked almost 40 years for them…I hate the fact that people who run this nation are beholden to such corporations.
So now, can we get back on topic?
