Be fair, the 'victims' in those two scenarios are vastly dissimilar. Just noticing "force down prices' is a common phrase, is disingenuous.
If not, you agree that the the identities of the victims don't break the similarity.
And its laughable, reframing big pharma as some poor unprofitable wretches.
I wasn't saying HNers are biased, I'm saying they're inconsistent in reasoning about these cases. (They're biased too, but that wasn't the criticism I was making here.)
>And its laughable, reframing big pharma as some poor unprofitable wretches.
It's even more laughable thinking that "whether pharmas are unprofitable wretches" is relevant to the economic effects of pseudo-price controls after the fallacy and inconsistency are explained.
Its obvious to me we're not discussing this in good faith any more. Pendantry will get us nowhere.