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Originally Posted by Spuds

It sounds like you are selling the additional research as a bad thing. But I see them reinvesting what they have made off the vaccine into further research that may or may not work out. Totally what I would do if I were them. Yes they are a business with employees who need to be paid and shareholders who would like to see a profit, we don't live in a communist society after all. I don't see the problem here.

More assumptions that a additional research is being funded by this, b that the amounts they are receiving are in line with the costs used to develop it and a reasonable profit margin for a product that we still don't know how effective it is, that is almost being required for every person.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/pfi...?id=D000000138

Profits for companies and shareholders aren't an issue within a normal business model, but when need, supply & demand are manipulated to artificially inflate costs and profits, that I have issue with.