fielding88 said:
Ganoncrotch said:
billionaires from selling drugs... I know that the meds are needed but these people profited from illness of others. |
While that's true, this specific company (Apotex) was extremely litigious against other company drug patents. It was to secure profitability of course, but you probably should take aim at another set of billionaires and their companies, since there are many that are still alive and are real shitheads
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My comments here make me think I'm now becoming a suspect in a murder :D
I'll check out your links though, it's my firm opinion that most people who are alive are shitheads not just the billionaires, heck you know to some people I'm sure I'm a right dickhead (although working IT support that kinda is my job at times lol)
on reading the first link
"He's often portrayed as having launched generic products to save Canadians money. That is abject B.S. because the prices he charged for his generics in Canada are far above what he charged in other countries."
"And one of the reasons he did that so intensely is the first generic into the market under our pricing regime actually is the one that's going to secure the most profit from that market."
He basically jumped on any medication that was patent protected and attacked the patents to see if he could make a generic version... which he then sold at a large markup still, differing prices in different regions, he wasn't so much a philanthropist again though, he was just very good at attacking patents where he could get a product ready to fill the gap and undermine his competition (which is incredibly easy to do when you're talking about an industry which is 450% ahead of the inflation curve)
Last edited by Ganoncrotch - on 21 January 2018
