• @set_secret@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    it makes perfect sense that one of the wealthiest countries, depends on poorer ones to produce their pharmaceuticals because of ‘costs’. Seems legit.

    • Maeve
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      137 months ago

      And still charge insanely high prices. A side note: a local used to work at a now-closed child medicine manufacturing facility. His behavior became so volatile, everyone blamed it on that, but also he was in late adolescence under extreme conditions of despair.

    • @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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      The country isn’t wealthy, but some individuals are and fantastically so. They won’t manufacture this stuff at home because it’d mean pharma execs couldn’t afford as many yachts