These people are dumb as hell.
hey i like making glasses
Ahhh yes when my eyesight is bad ill just go to my local glasses maker who will make my glasses. Oh, what size frame do I need and what type of lenses? Uhhh idk ill have to see an optometrist. Oh wait, there's no hospitals or medical industry. Guess I gotta read this book and study eyes myself. Oh wait I cant. Because I can't. Fucking. See. Guess ill just go home... oh my father is dead from high blood pressure. Looks like he couldn't find the diabetes-healer to personally befriend.
I'm really glad we don't have organized production anymore. That would be soooo authoritarian.
hey, i have a biotechnology class rn!
Certain factories specialising in making one specific ingredient used in medicine can produce close to the full global supply. They need incredibly specific equipment to do this, like for example uhhh multiple stories high fermentation tanks.
You would NOT have the budget to build one of those, let alone get the workforce needed to upkeep it. And that's for one hypothetical ingredient alone! Imagine trying to source every single type of medicine like this. You could NOT do it with "a few friends who have chem degrees". Not even if you also befriend pharmacists and biotechnologists. You need those specific factories, and they might just so happen to be in a completely different part of the world. And that's okay.
If you blow up supply chains, people die.
also "i would buy lab equipment from a lab equipment supplier." sounds like you do need factories and a supply chain to exist!
This is just the produced goods version of the 'food comes from the grocery store, why do we need farms' discourse.
I have never appreciated how specific companies are until I started building their factories and warehouses.
Unfortunately, a lot of billionaires don't understand this either, and have made the objectively insane decision to spend their wealth building their own bolt-hole while burning down everything else, instead of the obviously correct decision to spend 99% of their wealth preserving a society in which things like chemotherapy exist.
Even if you think about something like Amazon. Thereâs so much waste and worker abuse just to squeeze a little extra profit out. And people in charge keep the 40+ hour 5+ day work week going despite evidence that in most fields people actually get more done when working less than that.























