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Insulin shouldn’t be expensive. What’s that got to do with high-end smartwatch pricing?

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Insulin isn't expensive. Walmart sells 100 doses for $77

You do understand that this was headlines for years? Did you complelty ignore that?

It only got 'fixed' 2023 and insulin still costs $30-50 per month for something you need to live.

And you do realize that the press was talking about an entirely different insulin? A long lasting injection which isn’t 100 year old formula. The price of insulin has been the same the entire time

But the old insulin is a lot harder to manage and we know why the 'normal' insulin became so expensive. Greed

I'm referencing us american people who were unable to afford insulin due to us americans shitty healtcaresystem.

Search for Alec Smith in Minnesota.

Its social critic, you did not get that? A country which let their own people die but also make such a product.

It's more a comment about what we value as a society. An Apple watch is an utterly optional accessory that nobody needs. And yet there's a bubble of rather wealthy people who will buy them without really giving it a second thought, and another large group of people who really can't afford one but will buy it anyway.

And? People buy what they want to buy. Apple builds what people want to buy. Been like this forever.

And? Why do you even the comment on a social critisism comment? Just ignore it, feel happy when you buy yourself the next stupid thing while you feel offended seeing your fellow citicen.

Why does it even trigger you then?

It doesn't trigger me, I'm trying to understand why it triggers the other guy. Now, pass the baton.

There's also a bubble of wealthy people who spend their time commenting on HN articles, complaining about .... other wealthy people.

For what purpose? Virtue signaling?

Man that’s so deep - some people are purchasing things while other people cannot purchase said things.

Society is so screwed :/

The social critisism is, that people in the united states of america (were apple is home), let people die while also buying unironically $800 watches as a mass consumer product.

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