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diff --git a/markley/blog/06_med_object b/markley/blog/06_med_object index 8ba30e6..8f372c8 100644 --- a/markley/blog/06_med_object +++ b/markley/blog/06_med_object @@ -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. |