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Rikard's avatar

What could fix this and all other such problems real easy, quick and neat?

By being CEO, board member, shareholder, or otherwise being a stakeholder (including all close family members) profiting from a business, one is also mandatory obligated to be a guineapig in all human trials, be it lawn darts or vaccines.

Make it law, and I guarantee you that you'll see such an uptick in product quality like you wouldn't believe.

"So, you want to market your new GMO corn mr Gates? You realise that first demands you, your family, your team of researchers, and so on according to our lists must first subject to a GMO corn diet for at least a quarter, with daily monitoring via blood and other tests as are appropiate?"

"..."

"Mr Gates, it seems to me you lack confidence in your product?"

Of course, this suggestion goes hand in hand with making it mandatiry a politician live among the constituency on a wage no higher than the lowest pension or minimum wage for full time.

Edit: pitch this in casual conversation with politicos and businessmen and you'll see a remarkable consensus right across all axes; communists and capitalists alike.

They all say no to having to bear the risks, costs and consequences of their own actions.

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Dr Linda's avatar

Something else that might help would be the required disclosure of anyone in the alphabet organized regarding moneys/gifts they received from commercial organization such as drug companies. They do not have to currently disclose thus information.

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Rikard's avatar

We have such a rule forcivil servants, and it's quite far-reaching. Any and all interests, monetary or otherwise, must be disclosed. But whether or not such and interest interferes with the duty of the civil servant is eft up to the person in question, as long as full disclosure has been met.

Any suspicions of unprofessional behaviour or bias are only ever investigated after the case, and the civil servants have found a way round that too: when working for thet state they work as employees; when working for private interests they have set up one-man businesses which are hired by the private party, and then the civil servant owning the one-man business hires one of his colleagues, with a lot of tit-for-tat and backscratching.

Technically legal, and everyone in the club is in on it.

And no one in power has any incentive to change it, since they make a bundle from it.

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Cindi's avatar

It’s like term limits; none of these horrible people will vote or act against their own corrupt & profiteering interests.

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Rikard's avatar

It's not like the British Empire allowed the formation of a new and democratic state without fighting back.

This is much the same. It seems hopeless, yet it both can and must be done.

Corruption is a choice after all.

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Gaye's avatar

They took their own “vaccines.” Or did they? Look at Bourla all vaxxed up and positive for at least the second time. Is he really that dumb?

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