You can’t blame individuals,
nor the companies here.
Okay, I really want to get on board with your logic here, but there's a layer of abstraction that simply cannot serve as a firewall of protection from real culpability.Mostly, I'm thinking about synthetic opioids. Mostly because you mentioned pharma in passing. Mostly I'm thinking about Purdue Pharmaceuticals and the Sackler family. I can't really condone the idea that it's okay to throw your money into a magic black box, and ignore the reason why the black box magically grows your money. If a pleasant financial advisor sits at a desk and tells you to feed your life savings into a worm hole, and on the other side you'll get triple back, as long as you never ask questions, sure, you'll do that. But that right there is the origin of hundreds of thousands of lives lost to drug overdoses and addiction. Investors not asking questions, but just demanding returns. Who cares, as long as the checks come through? The truth is, that level of commoditization is what gets people killed. "I don't care how it works,
I want 10% growth every year, minimum"
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