Everyone in the #access2meds movement should see last week's tech hearings as a beacon. Monopolies have metastasized throughout our society thanks to a 40+ year economic agenda that has defined progress as giving power to a few. (1/5)
The hearings focused solely on tech, but just a peek at #pharma and one will quickly see the industry has all of the trappings of a monopolist’s candy store: widespread consolidation, the protections for perennial price increases, and most importantly...
...an antiquated patent system that provides pharma execs and their lawyer stonemasons the foundational bricks needed to fortify their revenue-generating “products” behind a facade of “innovation”.
As we collectively come to grips with the magnitude of the devastation resulting from decades of widespread monopolization, the past certainly looks bleak...
...but if we do not want to go back, we need a new language and way of thinking that does not simply parrot the words “innovation” and “progress” as they have been defined these past 40+ years.
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