▲ 106 ▼ Capitalism CookBook: Take an invention which the inventor wanted to be accessible to everyone and make it 57 times more expensive than it costed to make it 🧐🎩 (i.imgur.com) submitted 3 years ago by CyberGhost@lemmygrad.ml to c/communism@lemmygrad.ml 6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 3 years ago (1 child) $32 is still ridiculous if it costs $6 to manufacture. People must start to take what is rightfully there’s from these company fat cats permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 13 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child) I suspect the correct market price, if it is sold on a market basis at all, should be somewhere between $12 and $32. "Manufacturing cost" is usually the cost to produce a packaged dose in the machine. It includes raw materials, power, labor involved. It doesn't include QA, shipping, standards compliance, accounting, and so on. These things are necessary no matter how the drug is produced, and no matter by whom it is produced; but they aren't "manufacturing cost" in the strictest sense. They would factor into market price. But here are some other things "manufacturing cost" doesn't include: marketing, sales, profit margin, and the cost of price collusion. These things are the reasons insulin shouldn't be sold on a market basis at all, and as such, should be free (as in price). Healthcare as a whole suffers from these problems. Insulin is just a particularly-obvious indicator of the whole con. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 years ago (1 child) Oh I agree with you but my mention was that Sanders was acting like $32 was at all acceptable permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago Yes, we're definitely agreeing. Sanders is being pragmatic in this instance, but we as a society should go farther. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 13 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child) I suspect the correct market price, if it is sold on a market basis at all, should be somewhere between $12 and $32. "Manufacturing cost" is usually the cost to produce a packaged dose in the machine. It includes raw materials, power, labor involved. It doesn't include QA, shipping, standards compliance, accounting, and so on. These things are necessary no matter how the drug is produced, and no matter by whom it is produced; but they aren't "manufacturing cost" in the strictest sense. They would factor into market price. But here are some other things "manufacturing cost" doesn't include: marketing, sales, profit margin, and the cost of price collusion. These things are the reasons insulin shouldn't be sold on a market basis at all, and as such, should be free (as in price). Healthcare as a whole suffers from these problems. Insulin is just a particularly-obvious indicator of the whole con. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 years ago (1 child) Oh I agree with you but my mention was that Sanders was acting like $32 was at all acceptable permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago Yes, we're definitely agreeing. Sanders is being pragmatic in this instance, but we as a society should go farther. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 years ago (1 child) Oh I agree with you but my mention was that Sanders was acting like $32 was at all acceptable permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago Yes, we're definitely agreeing. Sanders is being pragmatic in this instance, but we as a society should go farther. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago Yes, we're definitely agreeing. Sanders is being pragmatic in this instance, but we as a society should go farther. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RustedSwitch@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago I don’t have anything to say other than this: I’m sick to death of capitalist selfishness. permalink fedilink source
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