From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 14/02/2024 20:59, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:14:52 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >   
   >> Vaccinations certainly did work ...   
   >   
   > Wow, I guess we can count that as a step forward, at least.   
   >   
   >> ... but we got the ones Big Pharma made the most cash out of...   
   >   
   > There’s always a new twist on the “conspiracy”, isn’t there?   
   >   
      
   Why would big Pharma *not* seek to make shitloads of cash out of   
   promoting *their* vaccines above the competition? That is their *duty to   
   their shareholders*.   
      
   It's a lot cheaper to slip a brown envelope to a politician, scientists   
   or health minister than it is to develop a better vaccine.   
      
   It's just *normal business practice*. No conspiracies needed.   
      
   You hire a Saudi Princeling as a 'political consultant' for $5million,   
   in order to to sell your fighter jets to Saudi. The fact that he is   
   married to the defence secretaries sister is simply no part of you   
   concern...   
      
   In China 40% of any project cost goes to paying of the officials who   
   need to sign the paperwork to let you do it.   
      
   In the USA and EU 'political donations' to both sides are simply sound   
   business practice.   
      
   There is nothing secret about this at all.   
      
   In Africa they don't even bother to hide what the are doing behind a   
   false screen at all.   
      
   "Corruption is a Western concept" say the ANCs lawyers.  In Africa, it's   
   just how you look after your family or tribe.   
      
   I don't understand how anyone with any experience of the world would   
   think that to say that business is routinely corrupt is peddling a   
   conspiracy theory. Why wouldn't it be?   
      
   It's got several names. Rent seeking. State capture. Pork Barrel   
   politics. Basically any time government is swinging large amounts of   
   someone else's money, you just feed a donations to the politicians or   
   civil servants who make the decisions to ensure some or all of it comes   
   your way.   
      
   That is the way the world *actually* works.   
      
      
      
      
   --   
   "If you don’t read the news paper, you are un-informed. If you read the   
   news paper, you are mis-informed."   
      
   Mark Twain   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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