Comments by "Nathan Levesque" (@nathanlevesque7812) on "Scientists Issue Urgent New COVID Warning To Greedy Countries" video.

  1.  @TheWrigle  The 'free market' is a fable. That's not how any unrestrained market would operate. Removing limits and controls on corrupt entities doesn't purify them. Systems also don't need to be 100% pure in order to count as capitalism. That's a logically invalid requirement that falls under the No True Scotsman fallacy.
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  2. They all came from public funding anyway. No sense in buying shit we already paid for...
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  3. These companies live on corporate welfare and don't actually innovate. They just iterate in service of commercial interests then take credit for 'inventing' something that public funding, and usually public institutions on top of that, already invented. Governments just throw away billion dollar public assets so corporate welfare queens can privatize all the profit. Imagine if the technologies that made iPhones possible had royalties paid back to the public institutions that actually invented them. The tech we would have right now...
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  4. nah, they'd be just as fucked up
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