From 71379d41a243f7cb06b396ea649cb5265a9797a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holden Rohrer Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 21:28:21 -0500 Subject: wrote a meh blogpost probably won't be graded :( --- PROGRESS | 9 +++++---- markley/blog/06_med_object | 14 +++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/PROGRESS b/PROGRESS index 6baf37c..e38191a 100644 --- a/PROGRESS +++ b/PROGRESS @@ -1,21 +1,22 @@ -+ INTA lecture 11/16 -- INTA lecture 11/19 +- INTA lecture 11/18 +- INTA lecture 11/20 - Nixon lecture - Seventies lecture - Revision activity on RR#3 - RR#4 - Med journal project - Video - - Bibliography/Research + + Bibliography/Research - Script - Slideshow + Ideas - - Journal entry + + Journal entry + Proposal - Determine what portfolio covers - Math Club Planning + Discussion activity for INTA + DNA Club Outreach ++ INTA lecture 11/16 + INTA lecture 11/13 + INTA lecture 11/11 + INTA lecture 11/9 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. -- cgit