Comment by minikites
5 years ago
The incentives of capitalism means that the ideal goal for pharmaceutical companies is Amazon Prime, but you need to subscribe to stay alive. We need to change the incentives because this is a bad outcome for society.
The ideal goal for everyone is getting paid (in increasing amounts) on a regular basis, regardless of “-ism”.
The purpose of patents is to allow for a period to earn an ROI and then release it to everyone. Alternative could be taxpayers paying for it and it going into the public domain immediately.
> The ideal goal for everyone is getting paid (in increasing amounts) on a regular basis, regardless of “-ism”.
no, that parenthesis, (in increasing amounts), is a feature of capitalism, not inherent to all human motivation. the need for ever increasing income stems from the need to provide capital investors with a return.
I would wager the ideal goal of the vast majority of people would be increasing income due to wanting to consume more and more, for various reasons, but at its most basic, for the reason of attracting mates.
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