>>>>>Just for the record, I'm not saying that the pharmacos shouldn't make a profit, I'm just saying they shouldn't make an obscene profit.
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>>>>Oddly enough, I agree with you :P
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>>>Oddly enough I disagree with both of you. Some things are worth the super obscen profits. Example. Say a researcher works on finding a cure for cancer, 20 year, or maybe 2 months. She finds the cure; validates it with 100% certainty. Then she says; unless I get 10 billion dollars I won't share my findings with the world. Of course, being that messiah won't apply water boarding, what do you do? I would give her 10 billion and then take her to dinner <g>.
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>>According to the definition of the word "obscene", no-one wants any company to make "obscene" profits. The only thing to discuss is what different people consider obscene :)
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>If it helps, my definition is a selling price of more than 10 times what it (honest total of all) costs you to make it. So, to keep the numbers simple, if it costs you 10$ to make it - and you're selling it for 100$ - that's obscene.
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>If you're cutting jobs left and right, yet still showing a substantial profit (that would more than pay for the jobs you just cut) - that's obscene.
Simple rules of thumb do not always apply in economics or business. They just don't.
I agree with you about profitable companies chopping heads, though.
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