Nowadays, a corporation can't just go killing its rivals.

A guild could, they just had to be slick about it.

You'll also notice many drugs have generic versions, which sell for pennies on the dollar, comparatively to their non-generic productions, something I deal with all the time. I've an aging family member who's required surgery about 8 times over the past 2 years, and almost every prescription is written out for a brand name drug, despite the fact generics exist. It's the difference between a few dollars to $800. Typically, the generic producers get around the patent law by producing a version with a slight alteration in dosing by .0001, depending on the drug. The problem is, most consumers aren't aware, nor do they act like a rational consumer, because A) they either have insurance, or B) they're utilizing Medicare or Medicaid. They're spending other people's money, so they don't shop for the lowest price. Thus, they have a negative impact on pharmaceutical markets, as they don't ensure competition. If it weren't for this, you'd be looking at pharmacies selling drugs as low as their production costs.

Then, there's also alternatives within the same family of drugs.

Yet, every doctor wants to write out a prescription for the latest patent within that family of drugs. What this comes down to is a lack of consumer information.

Of course the patient wants the most effective drug at the lowest price, yet this isn't the behavior of doctors.

medicare and medicaid always only pays for the generic unless there is no alternative

Now we start getting into kickbacks.

>imagine thinking that people aren't entitled to self-ownership
What do you mean? The only thing they are entitled to is being part of the glorious Chinese Empire, as it has been since the encient times.

Isn't that enough?

@Killzone, that's true, yet you can use discount cards to price drugs in your area, which are negotiated by a firm that keeps track of the supply and so forth, at every pharmacy. What this also amounts to is the difference between Medicare being billed out over a hundred bucks, or the consumer using the discount card paying $10, and it ends there. No burden on taxpayers, and they pay less than what they otherwise would with a co-pay using Medicare. Not to mention eliminating all the overhead and wages paid out to government, unionized and lazy labor, associated with Medicare's inefficient management, which by the way costs us all something in the tune of trillions each year. Isn't that lovely?

Oh, but the government fixers won't tell you this private market sorted itself out, without government interference.

"Give us more power to cause shortages of supply and firms exiting markets," they say.

"Let us increase your taxes," they say.

"Let us plan your lives, because we know best."

Order arises from within, not without.

@Goodwood of Dank™ Well the video stated, that due to the increasingly older demographics of china;, they may need more migrants to maintain and sustain the workforce. I am just quoting what the man said in the video

I see.

That's why they've been constructing all those large airports. 😉

They're planning for migrant workers.

An exodus, too.

Their planning, in the end, will fail.

The failures will pile up, the inefficiency will bite them in the ass.

It's just a matter of time.

Just like the Soviet Union, they will face their own collapse, because they couldn't accept the stable and natural order that arises from decentralized economic and social development.

Indeed. They're vigorously digging their own graves.

With a great arrogance that betrays always, GD.

Yep. The bigger the ego, the bigger the pop.

https://i.imgur.com/ppNXwwT.png

Just remember when the CCP begins sending millions of their bourgeois class to invade the rest of the world, remember their time-tested strategy of invading "peacefully" through slow encroachments.

I wonder what we're going to do. Do you think we'll send them back, or shoot the planes down?

Or, do you reckon the so-called "liberals" will welcome them with open arms?

@Goodwood of Dank™

Muslims do the same thing.

The solution is similar: enforced asimilation.

You want to be a citizen of our country? Follow these rules...

If they don't want to follow them, we don't grant them citizenship.

You know what their objectives will be.

Of course. Projection of soft power through economic influence.

Good luck running COIN with a mass that large.

Again, how is this different from the soft invasion of Islam?