Are illnesses, poverty, famine and war all unfortunate necessities?

[danot]

If there were no medicines then I doubt everyone would live a long or healthy life..

 

I'm asking if medicine was replaced by cures... what then? I'm not asking what if there were on medicines to treat illness.

[truman]

I'm asking if medicine was replaced by cures... what then? I'm not asking what if there were on medicines to treat illness.

 

If everything could be cured then the population would grow enormously..all that pressure on resources..what do you think would happen?

[Mecky]

Why do humans still have to work? We were promised robot slaves and computers that would run the planet while we frolicked by rivers reading books and doing art. But we have to work harder for less rewards.

 

Tomorrow's World, you lied!

 

Because money/work is a way of enslavement or at least control in-so-much that it limits peoples' actions. It must be applied nationally or globally or it wouldn't work.

[Anna B]

What if things such as fatal illnesses, extreme poverty, famine and war were in fact unfortunate necessities which play a beneficial role in protecting the global economy? where's the money in cure? There isn't any, there's only money in medicine, that's why big pharma rake in £billions each year . The weapons industry is a simple case of supply and demand so it's in their interests to make sure there is a demand, hence the tens of £billions raked in each year from wars, and is with regard to eradicating world famine and poverty, why haven't they done so yet? What else might they be waiting for?.... an oil spring to be found in each of the affected countries and townships before scrambling over one another to be the ones credited with liberating them?

 

There is much unsubstantiated evidence that this happens, but it tends to be dismissed as 'conspiracy theory'.

 

When you find out someone like Donald Rumsfeld who was in charge of defence in America was also the owner/ MD of several armaments factories you could say either that that gives him experience so that he knows what he's talking about, or that it's a massive conflict of interests. Did it affect his decisions to go into various countries, it was certainly good for business?

 

It's very hard to find out who actually owns what in this world, it's deliberately shrouded in mystery, so rumours abound, but it's behind alot of corruption at the top. (Anyone who thinks there is no corruption is living in cloud cuckoo land.)

 

As an exercise, can anybody discover what companies our 'Peace envoy to the middle east,' Tony Blair owns, and how he made his £20+million, or if it's true that David Cameron's father manufactures wind turbines?

 

See what I mean?

[saunaman]

There's no money in Pharma anymore , why should companies spend a decade researching promising drugs when other companies can take advantage of the research to subsequently produce their own , cheaper brand of the same drug very shortly afterwards ? What's the incentive for research these days ?

 

As for extreme poverty , surely that should be tackled on a country by country basis ? The EU comprises a large number of countries . If Bulgaria and Romania have a minimum wage one sixth of ours , surely the EU should be pumping local regeneration funds into those countries on a massive scale in order to bring them into line with the rest of Europe ? Why should their people be forced abroad away from their homes and families in the first place ? We moan about Sheffield , but what would it take for Sheffielders to head abroad to seek work ? Time will tell ....

[Anna B]

There's no money in Pharma anymore , why should companies spend a decade researching promising drugs when other companies can take advantage of the research to subsequently produce their own , cheaper brand of the same drug very shortly afterwards ? What's the incentive for research these days ?

 

I think you'll find drugs are produced under licence and the profits go to the drug company that formulated them. A bit like taking out a patent on an invention, if other people want it they have to buy it off the person who holds the patent.

 

Pharmaceuticals companies are worth billions.

[Cyclone]

Why do humans still have to work? We were promised robot slaves and computers that would run the planet while we frolicked by rivers reading books and doing art. But we have to work harder for less rewards.

 

Tomorrow's World, you lied!

 

We don't work harder though, we have more leisure time today than we ever have.

Maybe we just don't appreciate it though.

 

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What if things such as fatal illnesses, extreme poverty, famine and war were in fact unfortunate necessities which play a beneficial role in protecting the global economy? where's the money in cure? There isn't any, there's only money in medicine, that's why big pharma rake in £billions each year . The weapons industry is a simple case of supply and demand so it's in their interests to make sure there is a demand, hence the tens of £billions raked in each year from wars, and is with regard to eradicating world famine and poverty, why haven't they done so yet? What else might they be waiting for?.... an oil spring to be found in each of the affected countries and townships before scrambling over one another to be the ones credited with liberating them?

 

Why is it always 'they' who have the capability but are involved in a massive conspiracy so don't fix these things?

 

Why don't you figure out how to end poverty?