Capitalism Must Grow Or Die

Capitalism must grow or die. There is no such thing as steady-state production, as Marx pointed out 150 years ago and our politicians and media point out constantly today, with their endless references to the necessity of economic growth.

That also applies to the drug companies. Their market must expand constantly, but there are only so many drugs a human population needs, or can afford.

So the drug companies try to expand their markets by inventing new diseases, or getting more of the population to take their drugs, and by getting government to mandate or purchase their drug products.

When it came out that the estrogen supplements they were selling to women, in the ''Forever Female'' ad campaign, were actually killing women with blood clots, sales dropped dramatically. Only the new campaign of ''Men can be women, with enough hormone ingestion" saved the sales.

Drugs were mostly taken by the elderly and infirm, until ''social anxiety'' and ''gender dysphoria'' were invented.

Infants and children were too healthy to need drugs, until Big Pharma got government to immunize themselves from lawsuits and then add 70 injections to the ''well baby schedule'' for the young.

But still they must accumulate, accumulate!

So now we have this push to ''put a needle in every arm in the world'', once, twice, three times and on and on, with government (the population) picking up the tab. The profits are rolling in, but they cannot rest on their laurels, they continue to push for more and more.

The environment has already been destroyed by the constant growth paradigm. Forests are gone, vast toxic pits remain from extracting minerals, the oceans are dying, species have gone extinct, the air is poisonous, rivers kill fish, and still the push for growth continues.

Why would anyone think that the people who killed off entire ecosystems would have qualms about killing off humans? Where do you think the military-industrial complex gets its profits?

Everyone who dies or is maimed by the injections is referred to as "externalities" by the publicly traded companies with a legal obligation to keep returns for their share holders rising regardless of whether or not the market is saturated. They have to create new markets or die. The corporation is like an organism in itself with no conscience, only a survival instinct. It must be fed even if that means consuming the society from which it sprang.