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Incentives and Greed, Villains and Systems
Pharmabro. Epipen. Price on medicine that’s important to lots of folks has caught the attention of the country; it’s followed by massive public outcry and, of course, lots of rage. The CEOs are evil, the pharmaceutical companies are evil, possessing some powerful evil recruitment system that many other industries lack. Maybe corporations are evil or just the love of money is evil. However expressed, greed is the problem.
So let’s get mad at all these folks, let’s shame them, post on Facebook about them. Maybe that’ll fix things.
Why Count Olympic Medals?
I’ll admit, I found myself checking the Olympic medal count daily, and felt little stirrings of patriotism as the Americans kicked off the first Gold win in air rifle, and then really started haulin’ ’em in during swimming, gymnastics, and track & field. But I had a moment where I asked myself why I cared at all that the United States had the most medaling athletes.