Sounds like Pfizer is in need of an Economics 101 study. You can barely convince people to get vaccinated, you think you can make em pay a high price for it? Good luck.
Do you genuinely believe that you and your appeal to Econ 101 is likely to have a better grasp on drug pricing dynamics than drug pricing specialists at Pfizer?
Increasingly over the last week or so I forget that I’m scrolling HackerNews and not Reddit when I read comments like OPs. I mean this literally and not in jest. Is anybody else noticing more low effort / group-think / karma-farming comments lately?
Yes. Particularly in any topic that has been politicized. Covid related posts are filled with Reddit-tier comments. It might be interesting to have something like RES for HN.
if big brother says you have to take it = massive profit
I think it'll work out given this being now approved for kids, and the systems they participate in (schools, events, parent insurance)
Not that I'm excited for it, just doesn't seem all that different
They don't need to get that money from the recipient of their shots, they can get it from the insurance companies and/or taxpayers.