Big Pharma: Hold my beer.
Monowitz, a private-sector satellite of Auschwitz operated by IG Farben as a slave labor camp to make rubber and other materiel it supplied at a substantial markup to the Wehrmacht. Iād never heard of Monowitz, but Tkacikās description of the camp is chilling, even in comparison to Auschwitz itself.
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the company bought 25,000 slaves ā preferring children, who were cheaper ā and installed them in a co-located death-camp called Monowitz.
Monowitz was ā incredibly ā worse than Auschwitz. It was so bad, the SS guards who worked at it complained to Berlin about the conditions. The SS demanded more hospitals for the workers who dropped from beatings and overwork ā Farben refused, citing the cost. The factory never produced a steady supply of rubber, but thanks to its gouging and the brutal treatment of its slaves, the camp was still profitable and returned large dividends to Farbenās investors.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/#farben
The Nuremberg trials are famous for the Nazi officers who insisted that they were ājust following orderā but were nonetheless executed for their crimes. 24 Farben executives were also tried at Nuremberg, where they offered a very different defense: āWe had a fiduciary duty to our shareholders to maximize our profits.ā 19 of the 24 were acquitted on that basis.
4m hours? 4,000 hours?
4 Million.
And relatedā¦
We have all seen how this goesā¦ this utter travesty betraying an entire nationās health and safety, in this case it would be:
- Wreck the water, the flora and fauna.
- Defund or intentionally underfund any sewerage entity and systems reliant on public monies.
- Thusly demonstrate that these public entities obviously arenāt up to their jobs.
- Make the case that privatization will fix all the ills currently evident.
- Sell these essential public service entities to some godawful corporation which will have zero accountability.
- Profit!
Ok, itās a few more steps than the 1, 2, 3: profit! model, but itās clearly more disaster capitalism via betrayal of public trust, perpetrated upon inside a nation to its own people.
Yeah I read that piece of Coryās and ye gods it was surreal.
From that link you posted, this, in case anyone wants to visit the hellscape some American healthcare has turned into:
Wouldnāt 4 million hours be 450 some years?
Oh my lord, we hear that constantly. And is a prime example of why profit motive and healthcare just do not mesh at all. And that does include DME, pharma, elder care and etc. Profit skews everything about the business. I hate it.
Average number of hours per leak times number of leaks. No single leak has been going for 450 years.
Got it. Iām extra dense today.
In this case (water in England for sure), weāre well down that line, a large number of these companies are private, and paying out big bonuses instead of upgrading their infrastructureā¦
Iām glad that all of my siblingsā kids (Iām the only childless one of the lot) are getting fully vaccinated. It helps thereās a doctor and a couple of nurses in the family, I guess!
Can testify. Increasing issues with āI just donāt trust the scientistsā kind of stuff. You canāt argue facts when rejection of those same facts is the heart of the movement. And this is not really a bothsides kind of thing anymore. There are still a few lefty vaxx avoiders, but it is mostly red hat wearing, white supremacist tatted parents spewing Alex Jones talking points who are the problem these days.
Even as someone whoās only experienced varying degrees of socialized medicine, I hear you.
Iām increasingly doubtful that the profit motive doesnāt irredeemably corrupt everything it touches.
I do software engineering (though Iām not legally an engineer at home). I work for a company thatās run by people who are definitely not avaricious, but in spite of that, I see things in our work every single day that harm/fail to meet the needs of clients and are let go because we canāt āaffordā to do them right.
One of the things the profit motive consistently does in my industry is force vendors to underestimate real costs.
I believe thatās because a lot of those leftist anti-vaxxers shifted hard right once they got connected with Jones and all the rest right-wing woo-peddlers and conspiracymongers.
