Re: Invisible Hand
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You're saying the toxicity of a drug is best decided by the Invisible Hand of the Free Market? My bad.
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You tell 'im, Cyrus!
What a joke! Those free market thinkers think that there's some wonderful, magical Invisible Hand, that just magically takes care of everyone's needs and provides food and shelter and health care and entertainment and...wait...
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Even more so, they expect that the bonus craving Product Managers ensure that the information they put out in the slick ads on TV are the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
We now have a world where we are hooked on Statins, popping Prozac, pushing Ritalin -- all pushed by Doctors listening to slick salesmen or pulled by fear ridden obese men in their forties feeling the first twinge of a heart attack.
We now live in a world where organizations called Citizens for Free Information (or some such exalted name) are funded and run by Corporations pushing Fake Information, where Consumer Protection Organizations (Naderite) are labelled as loony leftists.
Where spending money on bombing Iraq is OK, but spending money to vette the Product Managers data (yes, only a little vetting), or spending money to have an organization where doctors can report adverse reactions in their patients are written off as being wasteful.
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