GarrotTheThief
The Green Jolly Robin H.
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The reason why the drug is outrageously expensive is because it costs $400 million to bring a drug to market. There is a hepatitis drug on the market right now that's very expensive ($1100/pill) but cures the disease. I can't blame the husband for stealing the drug, but the pharmacist owes these people nothing at all. It's his property and it's been stolen. If I was the pharmacist, I would've shot the thief. The ideal approach would be to address the economic and political forces that drives up the cost of these drugs. It's not the pharmacist's fault that the drug is so expensive and he's not being greedy. He has to get something back for his effort too.
Does he? Why? Do Sea Lions get something back for putting forth effort other than motion forwards? Yes...they get food when they put effort into hunting, but what about their prey? Their reward for effort escaping is death at the Sea Lion's mouth.
Nature is not democratic and nature is no about utility and markets. Nature is very aristocratic and all about plutocracy. The idea that someone deserves something in terms of monetary value for effort expelled is a belief, yes, and a valid one, but not rooted in any objective reality. It is a subjective humanistic belief, like an aesthetic, or a taste acquired for wine...it is not a biological reality like the necessity to drink water or perish.
The idea that we live in a free market is false. We do not. Even in economics we are well aware that we live in a monopolistic economy...not monopolistic competition, a monopoly, and a monopoly is always part of a plutocracy, hence the idea of free markets principle in an ethical consideration is vacuous, cold, and illogical.