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   From: wthyde1953@gmail.com   
      
   Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:19:06 +1300, Titus G  wrote:   
   >   
      
   >> Apple's only reason for existence is to return profits to its owners and   
   >> has the same philosophy as the USA insurance-triaged 'health' system: A   
   >> patient totally cured is a source of income lost. A perfect product   
   >> means no more income from that customer. Do you remember that Apple were   
   >> prosecuted for software that caused the need to unnecessarily replace   
   >> batteries? Was it Apple selling the thumb drives and external drives   
   >> with proprietary plugs? Is Apple stupid because it has less money than Musk?   
   >   
   > That's the best takedown of Modren Medicine I have seen in a long   
   > while. As practiced in the USA, that is; if you live somewhere else,   
   > YMMV.   
      
   In his first book on investing, "One up on Wall Street", Peter Lynch   
   discussed SmithKline, whose stock had been on a tear because of the drug   
   Tagamet.   
      
   He commented that Tagamet is the ideal investor's drug, as patients have   
   to take it forever, as opposed to antibiotics, which cure the underlying   
   disease and are ideal patient's drugs.   
      
   Don't invest, in other words, in companies that try to cure disease.   
   Invest in those that treat is.   
      
   William Hyde   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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