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This is the real story of America. Between payday-lender price hikes, patent-exploding to stymy competition, avoiding taxes on obscene profits, billionaires everywhere you look.

We are in the Robber Baron times again. Capitalism run amok.
Andrea Junker @Strandjunker
As long as I live, I will never forgive Eli Lilly for increasing the price of insulin by over 1,200% since 1996 to $275 while it costs less than $10 to manufacture. The inventors of insulin sold their patents in 1923 for $1 to save lives, not to make CEOs obscenely rich.
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Trauma Epidemic
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In response to Travel Buff.
Not just America (or England and other European countries anymore).

That noted, there's a next phase to the cycle.
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In response to Trauma Epidemic.
Please clarify? Oligarchs are world wide, but I think you are getting at something else.
11:17 PM - May 13, 2024
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Mainly that the next phase is already underway. And, yes, it's global now, though the US 'inherited' it from Europe.

Coincidentally (and as I just noted in a reply on X), I just rewatched "The Big Short"… for (rhyming) reasons.
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11:25 PM - May 13, 2024
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