justsomeantifas:

justsomeantifas:

how can some people look at the fact that insulin is cheap to produce, yet extremely costly and not think corporations have pricing power especially on inelastic goods such as insulin lmao. 

they talk all day and all night about how “supply meets demand” and then casually forget that inelastic goods are a thing that corporations can gut people with. 

believing supply meets demand at some fantastic idealist equilibrium in real life is so childish and ignores the realities of the lives we live. supply does not and has not met demand at your magic equilibrium since the dawn of capitalism. it’s just not a real thing.

and on top of this, they genuinely want people to die because they believe a corporation has a right to kill people by withholding cheap goods to make another couple billion? that’s inhuman.

and don’t give me this bullshit that it’s the governments fault because regulations or whatever else garbage you want to spew.

you truly honestly believe if there were less regulations corporations would ignore an opportunity to screw people over when they know they can? 

you truly think corporations out of the goodness of their cold dead hearts would throw away an opportunity to make a lot more money than they should just because people are desperate and will die without the goods they hoard?

and you truly think that there would be enough insulin making competition to stop this from happening? that’s honestly fucking wild. you call communism wild but to think this is genuinely … the most absurd thing i’ve ever heard.

you really don’t think these corporations would oligopolize to beat out everyone else? you don’t think their endgame would be to make the most money possible? 

and you say I don’t know anything about economics …