> This is capitalism working as intended: taking a captive market (eg diabetics that cannot live without insulin) and extracting wealth from them to the hands of a very few.
People can't live without food, either, but every historical attempt at government agriculture has resulted in famine. With swinish capitalists engaging in food production, we're all the fattest people in history.
As for the "very few", anyone can buy stock in Big Pharma and get their fair share of the wealth.
> ... but every historical attempt at government agriculture has resulted in famine
So famine has been eliminated then? A quick Google search shows that ~9 million people die of hunger every year. There's no communism to blame that on, much as people like to talk about, say, famine in the USSR, but 9M deaths per year from intentionally withholding food under the auspices of capitalism doesn't get a second thought? Why is that?
> As for the "very few", anyone can buy stock ...
Things like 401ks have convinced people that they are participants. But owning 20 shares in Amazon doesn't make you a capital owner. Something like the wealth of the 8 richest people on Earth is about the same as the bottom 4 billion.
But sure, tell me some more about stock market participation.
People can't live without food, either, but every historical attempt at government agriculture has resulted in famine. With swinish capitalists engaging in food production, we're all the fattest people in history.
As for the "very few", anyone can buy stock in Big Pharma and get their fair share of the wealth.