Big Pharma = Big Corruption

Pharmaceutical companies have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to maximize profits.

By law, company directors and executives can and should be removed from their positions if they fail to maximize profits.

No one disputes this. This is true for all corporations but in the case of the pharmaceutical industry it leads to the death of nations.

Curing disease is not profitable.

Treating chronic disease is where all of the money is to be made.

Causing chronic disease increases profits further.

Therefore, by law, pharmaceutical companies are in the business of treating and causing chronic disease, not curing disease.

What makes our current era even more grotesque is that this monstrous state of affairs can only persist so long as voters do not question it.

So Pharma buys politicians, regulators, academics, and the media and floods the public square 24/7/365 with the message that anyone who points out this conflict between the interests of Pharma and the interests of citizens is by definition crazy and dangerous.

The reason our society appears so schizophrenic right now is that it has become a requirement of citizenship to pretend that the interest of Pharma are synonymous with the interests of citizens — when they so clearly are not.

Most people just want to fit in, so they go along with this madness because they fear ostracism more than they fear cognitive dissonance (and the dissonance soon fades as people come to love Big Pharma).

We have to entirely rethink how these companies operate and realize that without checks and balances this one industry inevitably will try to enslave the world.