Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "More Perfect Union" channel.

One can probably not even deliver a drug like this for $5 to the pharmacy. The entire video is one big made up lie.
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Wait... why did you guys not put in the long hours in high school and college or university to become engineers? Did you really think that you would get a cushy life on the assembly line at 50 dollars an hour? Unbelievable.
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@tylerhunt7552 What you want and what your labor is worth are two pairs of shoes. Manual labor had a lot of value before automation. Now it has almost none. Now the work of the automation engineer has more value. Why don't you cry some more? Maybe that will help? :-)
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This is not a free market problem. This is a drug development cost problem. If you look at the actual margins of drug companies, you will notice that they are in the low percent to low teens range. It's a very hard business model. How do you know? You aren't making any. If anybody could make drugs like housewives are making candles and soap, then you would, too.
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What in the world are you guys smoking???? Silicon Valley NEVER supported competition. Dudes, you are delusional. Absolutely nothing has changed about the tech business. It is just as cut throat as it was right after WW II. Seriously????
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You can make a peptide at home, if you wish. The problem is as you said: that peptide won't survive in your body for more than a few minutes, which is medically useless. By the time you have done all the necessary research to have a useful drug approved you are billions in cost into a game that is very hard to win. Only one in ten drugs makes it to the market. Since you have spent a billion per losing product, that means your winning one must make you tens of billions or you aren't going to be in business long.
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Ozempic doesn't bring most people down to a proper weight, but it does improve biochemical imbalances a lot.
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If you want communism, then you need to go to a communist country. ;-)
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@jebril His voters have zero interest in reality. He probably wouldn't get elected if he told the truth.
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Yes, they don't work, either. Ozempic does. ;-)
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@tylerhunt7552 I am a guy who spent 12 years on learning physics and getting a physics PhD. Of course I had a better job than you. ;-)
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@tylerhunt7552 A mature adult can accept reality. So that's not you, then. ;-)
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@tylerhunt7552 You are raging against reality. That never ends well. ;-)
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Housing is still reasonable affordable... in areas where nobody wants to live. It's the old "location, location, location" problem that plagues home owners and renters alike.
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The alternative is to force the owners to rent them out. I don't think that kind of law will pass the US Supreme Court.
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I can see a PCP within an hour or two and my own PCP within a week or two if needed. Elective surgery can be scheduled in days to weeks around here. What's the downside? Insane health insurance cost. You can't have it both ways. If you want prompt service, then you have to accept the cost of serious inefficiencies.
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@Bluejay32 Most developed countries are dealing with physician shortages by immigration. All of my cardiologists are from India. That means there is a shortage of cardiologists in India now, but not around here. Healthcare systems that are trying to manage cost by lowering service levels have shortages. Absolutely. That's what "communism" gets you. What "capitalism" gets you is a $3000 per month health insurance bill (I am past that, since I am retired I am now on medicare... don't know how much the government spends on me now). No argument with either. Like I said, you have to make a choice, cheap or good. What everybody wants, of course, is free healthcare with same day service and a full tank of gas and a steak dinner for 25 cents, like in the good old days. Not going to happen.
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Can you name the middlemen here? I bet you can't.
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There are no patents on insulin any longer. You can make it in your garage, if you like. Good luck getting approval from the FDA for your home brew, though... and by the time you do get FDA approval, you will be selling it for just as much as everybody else. Yes, it's that expensive to make safe biologics.
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Corporations own less than 1% of the total housing stock in the US. It is not a real problem, at least not outside of some areas where the number is much higher.
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@JackCollins-r4r Those are all counted in the corporate numbers. Technically a lender does own your property if you haven't paid back most of your loan, yet, but that doesn't count because they will not evict you as long as you are paying. They can't raise rent on you, either. Seriously, the problem here are NOT the corporations. The problem are the boomers. What we are seeing right now is a giant wealth transfer from the young to the old. The tragedy is that it doesn't make most of the elderly rich, either, because it is not on a one-by-one basis. It's just the result of an aging population where the elderly are outnumbering the young. The US could solve all of this with immigration and by building low cost housing, but it is again the egotism of the elderly which prevents both solutions. You will simply have to wait for the boomers and their offspring to disappear the natural way and then housing will become cheap, again. That is going to happen towards the end of the 21st century.
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You should be doing all of that in addition to taking Ozempic. Not sure where you get the idea from the the government subsidizes it in the US.
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Sounds good, but no such law will pass the US Supreme Court. Nor should it.
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Homelessness is not illegal and never will be. Sleeping outside is becoming illegal in many areas. And why would it not be? It causes a slew of problems for the homeless, cities and everybody who lives in areas where the homeless congregate. If you are homeless, please go to a shelter.
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Capitalism is about the control of the means of production. Your home is your contribution to YOUR productivity. If you want somebody else to provide it to you, then you will have to pay that person for the service.
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Why are you telling us that you don't know chemistry? ;-)
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