If pharmaceutical development was government run, I'd understand the outage at lowering the quality of life of US citizens; but faceless corporations literally cannot act in a way that is not financially optimal without committing a crime.
I think you found it:
> corporations literally cannot act in a way that is not financially optimal without committing a crime
The “problem” is that perverse incentives lead to unethical behavior that most would find distasteful and morally reprehensible.
I don’t understand the criteria for outrage that you’re hinting at. The fact that it’s not government run doesn’t make this less disturbing. It does change where one might direct their outrage.
Or someone who has drunk enough kool-aid that they actually believe that.
Both are pretty common here, this one seems pretty perfectly balanced between the two.
The financial optimality of things depends in large part on government laws; changing the laws could re-align incentives.
It's not quite that black and white.
As for crimes, in many cases, criminal behavior results in a fine that doesn’t make the behavior uneconomical. I’d like to say I don’t understand why this happens :-)