#civicventures — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #civicventures, aggregated by home.social.
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"Humira is [US]America's top-selling drug, and it treats rheumatoid arthritis ... AbbVie, the company [set up to hold patents on Humira] ... had filed for 247 patents on this drug, at the time the report was released in 2018, and 136 ... had been granted.
... because of that lengthened monopoly period ... the cost to [US]Americans is at least an extra US$14 billion."
#PritiKrishtel, Co-Executive Director, I-MAK, 2020
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"I have an 11-year old and I want her to actually have a future. If we’re not focusing on this stuff, if we are talking about trivia, if we’re doing the politics of distraction, you’re putting my 11-year old’s future and everyone else in her generation in deep, deep risk. That is unacceptable."
#MarkBlyth, 2022
https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/why-wont-trickle-down-die-with-mark-blyth/
Hell yes!
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"... if you think about the people who went to the Capitol building on January the 6th, they were morally outraged, too. You may disagree with those morals, but that was a motivator for their anger.
We got interested in this whole area and we basically settled on a story about macro-angrynomics and micro-angrynomics."
#MarkBlyth, 2022
https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/why-wont-trickle-down-die-with-mark-blyth/