And the end of base line humanity begins.
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Eh. They want a healthier workforce during their prime years. After that they need them to die sooner so that they aren't a cause for an increase in taxes to support them. We're about to see that with the Boomers. These old fucks are living forever and the workforce is shrinking, meaning bigger bills with fewer people to tax to pay them.
It will bring prices under control for the manufacturers, which will raise their profit margin while they keep the prices sky high.
Also, lets not forget that our paying, or rather our insurance, paying absurd prices for drugs is what has long subsidized the rest of the world's cheap drugs. It's why drug companies fight so hard to keep America from lowering drug prices - it'd completely destroy their profit margins and they'd be relegated to being mere multimillionaires instead of multibillionaires.
Given how RICO works, every guilty plea increases the odds just by virtue of being a guilty plea.
Google thinks anything that isn't Google is harmful(to their bottom line).
They aren't intended to stand up in court. They are performative legislation intended to show their constituents they're doing something but those dastardly activist libbrul judges keep legislating from the bench!
Not since Nic Cage stole it.
I've been hearing this "we need a new renaissance" spiel since the 80s. It really sounds like "I've got no ideas, so I'll distract with mentioning a time that is revered for it." to me nowadays.