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First, selling generic antibiotics isn't the money-maker you might be imagining. A lot of them are made overseas.

Second, try to convince a random family that they should withhold antibiotics and let grandma die of pneumonia and report how that conversation went.

Keeping old sick people alive as long as possible is absolutely the money maker for big pharma.

Part of keeping old sick people alive is generic antibiotics.

Therefore, we will continue to have them.

It has nothing to do with what people who have no power think, feel or do.