georgephillip
Diamond Member
More profits from patents, Rockefeller?Pound sand, commie scum.
Can Coronavirus Force Policy Types to Think Clearly About Intellectual Property? - CounterPunch.org
"This is one of the great absurdities of our system of relying on patent monopolies to finance the development of new drugs and vaccines.
"(This argument is laid out in chapter 5 of Rigged [it’s free.])
"These government-granted monopolies make something that would almost invariably be cheap, into items that are very expensive.
"We then hope the government will take steps, such as price controls, to make drugs and vaccines affordable.
"But if the government didn’t grant the monopoly in the first place then there would be no problem.
"Drugs would be cheap, like paper clips or plastic cups."