>>Actually they could bargain with the pharmafia, being the single largest customer. Could, but can't, because (someone paid to make it) there be a law preventing that.
It will happen, but sadly there will have to be a crisis first because the parasites forget that they are feasting on a host, let alone that it has to eat too.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
