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The corporate leaders will work to keep their profits up.
If that means keeping us healthy and telling the truth, then that is what they will do.
Bankers thrive off of loans and weapon manufacturers do thrive off of war though.
A sick person want to get healthy, and if a drug can't do that, most people won't buy it.
The media needs trust for people to consume news, truth is a hugely important commodity.
If a drug makes someone feel better despite not helping with the underlying issue, people will buy it. Even if that drug is known to cause issues. Painkillers is a whole category that does the first part and contain ones that also do the second, some by wrecking your liver, others with addiction.
Yes?
I did not say otherwise?
A sick person want to get healthy, and if a drug can't do that, most people won't buy it.
You said that. And I think there's a difference between feeling better and getting healthy. Feeling better is more about treating the symptoms while getting healthy is about dealing with the underlying issues causing the symptoms.
Those drugs that target symptoms instead of underlying causes still sell well.
Also Alex Jones built up his empire in part by selling "brain pills" that wouldn't do much other than maybe give you lead poisoning, depending on who his source at the time was. Health shit sells as much on hope as it does on results, and with the placebo effect on top of it, people can strongly believe that something that hurts them is actually helping them.
I do not know if you mean this serious? I mean an anarchhocapitalist believes all these things you stated to be the truth. Maybe except this:
the media needs trust for people to consume news, truth is a hugely important commodity.
As selling the truth can be profitable as a propaganda tool against enemies in the short term.
These days I have seen people being completely serious when talking like this.
yeah and are you yourself serious? or is this sarcasm on your part?
I am serious
Keeping us healthy and telling the truth will never maximize profits.
If the drug can help, the sick person will buy it. If it cures you when the pharmaceutical company can sell one that treats, but does not cure you, then they will not sell you the cure.
Your "gotcha" is weird and useless.
You forget the need for good PR from time to time.
They gotta release a treatment every once in a while to keep public oppinion up to acceptable levels.
Nope! They don't need PR. They have commercials, at least in the US, which are illegal like, everywhere else on the planet. But if they want the extra boost, they can rely on media attention given to "potential" cures.
If it's more profitable to treat instead of cure, they will not cure you. Profit line must go up, remember?
Lol that last one... No. Just no.