• JohnnyFlapHoleSeed@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I mean, let’s be honest, it would have to be rich white men losing 20%, then we would find a cure, and price it so that anyone else couldn’t afford it, even if it cost like $12 to make

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      19 hours ago

      They do. Men lose bone density as well, just at a slower rate. It’s at about 20% when men are 60 instead of 50.

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      22 hours ago

      They won’t cure something that they can profit from by making something a subscription.

      ~Baldness. Erectile Dysfunction. Incontinence.~

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        20 hours ago

        Same principal that IT works off of now. Hey, get rid of the email client you’ve been comfortably using for years, and instead buy this jankier version that you need to pay a subscription for…

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        20 hours ago

        The anti vaxx movement was a conspiracy by big pharma to get people to stop taking the cheapest way to prevent disease, so that they can profit on the expensive ways to treat those easily preventable diseases.