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Originally Posted by Azure
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/16/rich...020-oxfam.html
Not exactly shocking, but still amazing to me that people are so willing to accept it.
Especially when its pretty clear that these companies manipulated governments in every possible way they could to get them to buy more vaccines and give more funding.
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The historical data suggests that the share of wealth accumulated at the top was going to continue to grow as it has been for decades. While COVID expedited that, for more reasons than just gains by pharmaceutical companies, to insinuate that it’s the only reason or even the biggest reason why their share grew distracts from the systemic issues that would have inevitably led to that growth anyways.
IMO it’s no more than a convenient talking point politicians use to distract voters who lap it up from the real issues and I find it quite fascinating that so many of the politicians who make that argument as if they care to address the issue also support policies that contribute to the problem like lower taxes for large corporations, lower minimum wages and otherwise restrictive labour rights that would do the opposite.