Selling the Sickness Then the Cure

Selling the Sickness Then the Cure

Peak Capitalism

Corporations don’t care about you.

Your family, your health, your future, or the future of the planet we all have to live on don’t matter to them; the only thing that matters to them, absolutely the only thing, is profit. Everything else is just noise, inconvenient variables to be mitigated. Human suffering is just a cost of doing business, and environmental collapse is a nagging PR issue.

If it keeps shareholders happy and the quarterly reports in the green, it’s all fair game. These are calculated risks; when the numbers say it’s still profitable to poison a few million people, the poison stays on the shelf. A glaring real-world example we can take a look at is the unholy corporate matrimony of Bayer and Monsanto.

Bayer AG, a German pharmaceutical and chemical giant, absorbed Monsanto, the U.S.-based agrochemical conglomerate infamous for its use of glyphosate, for a cool $63 billion back in 2018.

They portrayed this move as a global partnership to “feed the world,” but anyone who can see through the propaganda saw the far darker truth. These capitalist giants managed to develop a profit pipeline straight from the toxic exposure they cause to the medical treatments they sell, all under the same corporate umbrella.

Now, if that doesn’t scream “corporate efficiency,” I don’t know what does!