The sad reality is that if Americans stopped paying inflated prices the 40% of drugs discovered here would shrink to about 10% and world wide drug discovery would be massively reduced.

You literally have to get fucked or the world get fucked harder and drags you down with them. Same reason why NATO and the farm bill are good for America.

The greatest trick from the wealthy is to not just exploit you to get it, but to destroy any possibility of resistance to them. Even trying to resist does nothing but harms the under class even more than if you simply accept it.

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.“ - George Orwell, a communist/socialist

Edit: To the guy who claimed Orwell wasn't a communist, the POUM who he fought for in the Spanish Civil war was communist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POUM) and according to the soviet union was specifically trotskyist. If you fight for them you are a communist, even if and especially if you claim you weren't later in life.