View Single Post
  #42 (permalink)  
Old 06-25-2008, 02:47 AM
DanteAugustusGermanicus's Avatar
DanteAugustusGermanicus DanteAugustusGermanicus is offline
Commentator
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Boston
Posts: 1,254
usa us massachusetts
DanteAugustusGermanicus is just really niceDanteAugustusGermanicus is just really niceDanteAugustusGermanicus is just really niceDanteAugustusGermanicus is just really niceDanteAugustusGermanicus is just really nice
Credits: 4,885
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperDinoYoshi View Post
Quite frankly, successful buisnesses don't become that way by cheating consumers off. It happens all the time, but usually the general public catches on pretty quickly.

More frankly, if the drug corporations don't profit as much as other corporations do, there is no incentive for people to pour the vast amount of necessary capital into drug development.

So if you are happy with the drugs we have today, fine. Treat those life-saving morally bankrupt companies like the criminals they are by stealing from them the profits they deserve.
there you go with the speeches and straw man arguments again.

what were the percentage of profits the drug companies made during the 60s, 70,s 80s, 90s?

people habe historically invested in certain industries companies (blue stock) not so much because of the rate of the return, but because of the perceived stability and assured return...this was before greed became the norm and the driving force in our culture. people lose so much money investing these days that it is ridiculous. it's a cyclical thing. we've seen this crap before.

who said I didn't say drug companies don't deserve a profit?

you set up this false argument where you are pro business and for profit and others aren't.

even communist China defies your silliness.

Democrats and liberals ran this nation after WWII and the growth of American industry grew under then and was spurred by them.

The biotech and computer industries grew up in liberal strongholds.

Liberal government policies lead the way in helping start ups/incubators. This is before the venture capitalists step in.
__________________
_________________

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know them by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against them.
-Jonathan Swift

---"Thoughts On Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting."
Reply With Quote