[ExI] Why is “cost of living” such a big problem?

[John Clark]

 <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*>>> **But if we defund medical research* [...]
>
> *>>OH FOR DARWIN'S SAKE! You keep repeating that silly straw man argument
>> like a parrot without even attempting to answer my fundamental questions,
>> like why the hell are American consumers and American consumers ALONE
>> responsible for repaying the entire research and development budget for
>> every drug in existence regardless of what country the research or the
>> development or the manufacturing occurred in?*
>
>
> * > We aren’t.  We have the option to not buy the drugs. *


*Just like I said before, yes we always have the option of dying. And Just
like I said before, you're behaving like a parrot; so I will do the same
and repeat the question I asked in my previous post: does anybody around
here, other than Spike himself, think that his answer to my question is
convincing, logical, or even coherent?*

*> Our system is set up to compel medical research investment to come here
> [...]*
>

*If you were right (and of course you are NOT) then compelling medical
research to come to the US would be an extremely stupid thing to
do because the end result of it would be American consumers would be
poorer, would die younger and do so in greater pain. Fuck that, do medical
research someplace else!  *

* > Ours is the second worst system for supporting medical research, better
> only than everything else.  *


*Obviously that is dead wrong. Denmark has a VASTLY superior system, as
does every technological nation on the planet. *

*John K Clark*
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