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ziq OP wrote

It is not.

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edmund_the_destroyer wrote

Yes. But by sheer dumb luck we do have some protection in some cases: biotech employees are human beings. So some portion will rebel if their employer starts actively suppressing a cure for disease X and then Uncle Bill/Mom/Sister Jane/Son Mark is diagnosed with X.

A friend of mine works in cancer research, and he's emphatic that he and all of his colleagues have lost loved ones to cancer. His boss or his boss's boss might be in this for the money, but he's in it to save lives.

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mofongo wrote

Any chance they would leak any useful discovery that the company they work for want to suppress?

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ziq OP wrote

Their livelihoods literally depend on obedience though. If they rebelled, they'd be blacklisted from the entire industry forever and not be able to make a living.

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edmund_the_destroyer wrote

An awful lot of people would do that to save the life of a sibling, parent, or spouse.

I live near three major pharmaceutical companies and the people that work there might embody most of what is wrong with modern America but they love their family as fiercely as anyone.

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existential1 wrote

I think the only way "under thr current system" it could be considered sustainable is if the parent company is owned by other consumerist businesses that can continue to leach the person.

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