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  1. We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be #free.
    But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted.
    💥Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, 💥 leading to
    🔸pharmaceutical companies "freely overcharging" for medication,
    🔸 a Big Tech "free from oversight",
    🔸politicians "free to incite rebellion",
    🔸corporations "free to pollute", and more.
    How did we get here?
    Whose freedom are we—and should we—be thinking about?
    In ♦️The Road to Freedom♦️, Nobel prize winner #Joseph E. #Stiglitz dissects America’s current economic #system and the political #ideology that created it,
    laying bare their twinned #failure.
    👉“Free” and unfettered markets have only succeeded in delivering a series of crises: the #financial crisis, the #opioid crisis, and the crisis of #inequality.
    While a small portion of the population has amassed considerable wealth,
    wages for most people have stagnated.
    Free and #unfettered #markets have #exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike.
    Such failures have fed #populist movements that believe being free means abandoning any obligations citizens have to one another.
    As they grow in strength, 🔥these movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom.🔥
    wwnorton.com/books/97813240743

  2. Researchers use stem cells to generate human neurons resembling those in the brain that control breathing during opioid reactions, for eventual chip devices to test overdose therapies.

    sciencebusiness.technewslit.co

    #News #Press #Science #Business #Opioid #Overdose #Preclinical #Toxicity #Neurons #Breathing #Naloxone #Fentanyl #Codeine #Brain #Methadone #StemCells #Biotechnology #Engineering #Chemistry