• CarrotBottom@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        It wouldn’t exist at all if capitalism didn’t exist.

        People would just get cancer and die like they used to.

        Capitalism is the reason we (and you) have nice things.

        • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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          2 years ago

          Yes, no innovation has been done under any system but capitalism. /s Let’s forget about how totalitarian Russia was the first to space. Let’s forget about how much medicine was developed under the religious authoritarianism of ancient Arabia. Let’s forget about how much philosophy was conceived under feudalism.

          • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.ee
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            2 years ago

            arabic numbers bad.

            or is it because edison couldnt claim this to be an american invention aswell? just because america is full of thieves doesnt mean they invented shit.

            rockets…werner von braun

            lightbulb…lumiere

            computer …conrad zuse

            internet…tim

            i am sure americans have invented absolutely nothing and stolen absolutely everything.

            biontech is german, pfizer are the murican scumbags.

            tiktok&wechat… chinese

            are you still on meta or drugs?

        • viking@infosec.pub
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          2 years ago

          I’m sure leaving reddit was a good idea, but joining lemmy might not have been. People here are just delusional in their approach to reality.

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      2 years ago

      Damn you weren’t kidding about the Pharma Bros. The fuckin Tankies are glad to not be the dumbasses in thread for once

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      2 years ago

      Oh, what villains! Developing a cure for cancer and asking for ten thousand dollars for it!

      In terms of cancer treatment, do you have any idea how small ten thousand dollars is?

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      2 years ago

      When it’s inevitably going to be a lot less than that, will you eat your words?

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        2 years ago

        If it cost ten thousand dollars I’d throw an enormous party. That’s already a very small price for a cancer treatment.

      • arc@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        The article suggests the vaccine prevents the recurrence of a specific cancer by 44% vs conventional treatment alone. So let’s be pessimists and say it only prevents recurrence by 22%. Should we eat our words that still 1/5th of people who’d otherwise die or suffer horribly from a recurring cancer now don’t?

        I think I would be more skeptical of the eventual price of this treatment and less about its effectiveness.