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I was a pharmacy technician, the barista of the medical world, for a few years. It was actually during my program that I caught a whiff of the ethics of pharma. One of our instructors mentioned that meds deemed unsafe were often sent to the developing countries. Lovely.

And it has not improved one whit in the past 40 years. It is actually much worse. Even the niceties of customer service have been abandoned.

So why is anyone surprised that we have all become a Tuskagee-like experiment? Pharma and government make a wicked team

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Easy to see that those "ethics" are just a feature of Capitalism, and not a bug. The same for all the other BigWhatevers.

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A glimpse of hope in at the WEF/Davos suckfest, Bancel of Modena was whining about dumping 30 million "lifesavers" in the dust bin as the world is awakening. Maybe the tide is turning

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Peter, This is on the money mon ami. One does not have to be a ‘screaming raving left-wing commo looney toon’ (I’m not for the record) to appreciate the rapacious essence of big-box capitalism at its most brutal. And it’s becoming ever more brutal by the day, akin to anarcho-capitalism. Speaking of communism, what we’re entering into is a world that’s likely to be dominated by the worst features of both, with dollops of fascism thrown in for good measure. I wrote about some of this a few years back, in the context of examining both the causes of, and the fallout from, the GFC. See below. And 🙏 for the heads up on that book. And the shout out. Best, GM

👉 Article One: The Gangbanksters of Grab-it-All Street, by Greg Maybury (From the Archives. 2015)

http://poxamerikana.com/2015/08/15/the-gangbanksters-of-grab-it-all-street/ 

👉 Article Two: No Country for Honest Peons, by Greg Maybury (From the Archives. 2015.)

http://poxamerikana.com/2015/08/29/no-country-for-honest-peons/

👉 Article Three: The Capo di Tutti Capo of Capitalism (From the Archives. 2015)

http://poxamerikana.com/2015/08/22/the-capo-di-tutti-capo-of-capitalism/

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