wrote a meh blogpost

probably won't be graded :(

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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ their security](https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/03/turnkey-authoritarianism/#min
 or repair their ventilators without [requiring an overpriced,
 unavailable Medtronic mechanic come type in a special
 code](https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/flintstone-delano-roosevelt/#medtronic-again).
-It's ``felonizing contempt of business model,'' as [consumer advocate
+It's "felonizing contempt of business model," as [consumer advocate
 Cory Doctorow puts it](https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/24/1201-v-dl-youtube/).
 
 [IMAGE: An xkcd comic about the DMCA. CAPTION: While not as draconian as
@@ -35,3 +35,15 @@ https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/1337_part_4.png]
 But these problems aren't exclusive to the DMCA.
 The DMCA is just one way in which megacorps, often with monopoly or
 oligopoly status, maintain their profits---at the expense of customers.
+Insulin pumps, pacemakers, ventilators, and insulin, by nature of the
+market, have maintained the power of their originators over their users.
+Intellectual property, in the form of patents and copyright, and a
+political system that allows Super PAC lobbying and pay-for-delay is how
+corporations maintain their hegemony.
+
+There is a fundamental issue with the way the current system is being
+run, and I want to look into that with the help of a medical device or
+high-cost drug.
+These are symptoms, and I think that I'll be able to find evidence that,
+despite the good that research funneled through corporations has done,
+the system that rewards corporations so heavily is unjust.