Reply #22: so we do. [View All]

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We also regulate some things and set others entirely apart from the capitalist drive for both their own, and society's, good.

First, we live in a capitalist society. The chief reason pharmaceutical companies invest in galactically expensive research projects to create new wonder drugs that save lives and enhance the quality of our lives is that they can make huge amounts of money off these drugs.

It also denies those wonder drugs to the poor, or requires that they go without other necessities in order to afford them.