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People of Lemmy, I dare you to name ONE billionaire that's done anything good. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by Eventlesstew@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not how vaccines work. The illness is already there, it's not like people get sick after you introduce a vaccine into the system. So the "market" has always been there and every dose administered is great.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You don't understand my point.

Sick people receive vaccines for free or very cheap
Sick people gets hope of survival to disease, hope which wasn't previously available.
Sick people ask their governments to continue receiving vaccines.
People providing vacciones now are charging a lot more to said governments.
Profit (which was the whole point, and not any "humanitarian" notions.)

And the market wasn't there, because unless there's some way to create high demand and guaranteed payment in poor countries, there's no profit in said vaccines (or any medication, for that matter; do you see any multinational farmaceutical companies giving much thought to the creation of medicine to cure Chagas disease? And it's endemic in many areas of South America. But those are poor areas, so the is no profit there).

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The problem with your argument is that the Gates foundation is a non-profit. They aren't trying to make a profit, they've burned through tens of billions of dollars in the past 20 years.

Are you arguing that countries should just let people die from polio rather than accept humanitarian aid or am I missing something?

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Some More News went into detail on why the “non-profit” label, especially for billionaires’ charity funds, is bullshit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=69AtkAHkKEc