adeptus-astarteej:

It’s really depressing how Labor Day has gone from “give laborers a day off” to “give white collar office workers and executives a day off but make retail laborers work so that executives can get a latte on their day off”

nah what really sucks is labor day being founded to stop the radical shit that laborers kept doing on international labor day (May day) and the riots commemorating the hanging of the Haymarket people

Also the problem with “big pharma” isn’t them sneakily pushing drugs on people who don’t need them

They already have a large captive market called “people whose lives and/or quality of life are dependent on something only the one company can supply”

And basically you’ll pay pretty much anything to not die so like it’s having all these hostages readily available. They don’t need to feed you Ritalin. They can just charge thousands and thousands of people whatever they want for “keepsyourheartfromexplodingestra”.

I think the reason for the popularity of the “pill mill” narrative is that liberals kinda know that our medical system is evil but can’t acknowledge crimes of omission, so have to come up with a narrative where it’s a crime of commission and people don’t need medical treatment anyway.