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When we buy complex medical equipment it comes with a checklist of levels, torques, voltages etc for the installing engineer to complete. Against each parameter there are two columns: German manufacturers succinctly head them soll (ought - factory limits) and ist (is - actual site measurements). Not a problem, more of a solution.
Can the "ought" values be purely derived by "is" values?That's the question.
Can the "ought" values be purely derived by "is" values?
So in relation to your UPS, what specification underpins the purchase contract? Here's a cautionary tale:
The UPS batteries ought to handle 500 kW power for 10 minutes during power outage, because the diesel genset takes some time to start up until it's ready to take over the load.
So now you need a backup battery to keep the aircon working when the UPS is in use...... The flywheel seems like a better idea!
Half a million dollars.That's the bonus a Big Pharma CEO got for hiking the price of ONE cancer treatment drug.How many patients lost their lives because they couldn't afford this medicine? Here's our conversation.
This argument presumes a universal human right to be cured from all diseases.
1. what is wrong with someone making a profit on something he has invented or legitimately purchased from the inventor?
Problem with that is that we would all live for ever and starve to death on an overcrowded planet, were it not for the universal human right to extract unlimited food and water from a finite planet.
and to remove the emotional aspect of the questions, forget drugs and think Rolls Royce Phantom.
2. what is right about advertising a desirable product to people who can't afford it?
"In 2005, the FDA granted approval for a promising new cancer-fighting drug called Nexavar. Bayer took it to market shortly thereafter, and it is currently an approved treatment for late-stage kidney and liver cancer.That is, so long as you live in the developed world. In a recently published interview in Bloomberg Businessweek, Bayer CEO Marijn Dekkers said that his company's drug isn't for poor people."We did not develop this medicine for Indians...we developed it for western patients who can afford it," he said back in December. The quote is quickly making its way across Indian news outlets.The comment was in response to a decision by an Indian patent court that granted a compulsory license to a local company to reproduce Bayer's drug."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
Where do you get that assumption from?
Fair competitions usually produce good results.
It can encourage people to work harder and be more productive so they can afford the desired product.
People will adapt to new environmental conditions. Not so long ago people can easily die from infections. We don't normalize it now.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 22/07/2023 08:29:47It can encourage people to work harder and be more productive so they can afford the desired product.Difficult, if you are suffering from terminal cancer.