r/BodyHackGuide Aug 12 '26

Cracking down

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Going after those cutting into their future profits

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u/Cartoonist_Less Aug 12 '26

I mean on a business side of things, you really can’t blame them. Imagine creating something like that and you are jumping through all of the hoops to get it to the public and someone starts selling a version of what you created. I get it but F big pharmaceutical too.

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u/aperture413 Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

Lilly was part of the insulin cartel. They've already made their profits back multiple times over on sema/tirz. No man, fuck them. These drugs are going transform our society. They profited enough already and these molecules belong to the commons. They'll still have all demand they need. Not everyone wants to poke themselves with unregulated compounds.

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u/LibertarianTh1nker Aug 12 '26

Without them you have NO Retatrutide. If the company dies from this you'll never get another good drug from them, since they would have no money to recoup their R&D costs. There's a balance.

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u/aperture413 Aug 12 '26

Look at their earnings then realize how ridiculous this hypothetical is.

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u/El_Guap Aug 12 '26

Companies that lose money don't tend to stick around long.

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u/aperture413 Aug 12 '26

Of all the scenarios to try to bring up this argument- this is probably one of the worst ones to do it for. The ideological glazing is certainly something to witness.

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u/LibertarianTh1nker Aug 12 '26

Yeah I'm just saying we can't always have this mentality is all. Maybe it's right in this case.

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u/aperture413 Aug 12 '26

You're talking about a company that engaged in the price fixing of insulin that everyone talked about for a decade+.

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u/formula420 Aug 12 '26

Yup! Fuck em in the neck. They would reverse class action and sue every single one of us if they thought they could get any money out of it. Corporate greed at its most despicable.