There is a lot more to Estonia’s economic liberalization than can be put in a few words but I dare the socialists to come forward and put forth their contrarian arguments about that country. China took Friedman’s advice to heart too. Look where it is today. China is more capitalist than capitalist America.

Socialism is not a voluntary endeavour. Those who are dim on Friedman’s published works, just search for “free to choose video” on google. Watch the 10 part series. It’ll be an eye-opener.

I think I am unfortunately now beating a dead horse (veterinary reference unintended) so I give up. I guess this is a good example of how you can a spin a story any way you like, depending on your perspective. Whatever the motive, I’m glad both drugs are being provided for human medical use.

The vet use side-effect must be profitable and I have no doubt about that. However, I disagree with the above theory since the story of how it was discovered and sent for free to Africa made it into a popular case study from Harvard Business School. I think it is still taught in some courses (Ethics & Social Responsibility, perhaps).

Ok. This is just pure dissembling and I can’t let it go. Merck did make a profit from Ivermectin, because it was used as a veterinary heartworm medication. One formulation was the world’s most profitable veterinary drug. If not for it’s veterinary use, they almost certainly would NOT have manufactured the drug which was the only cure (at the time at least) for river blindness. The profits from the veterinary use funded the humanitarian use. This is NOT about a drug company just being altruistic, although I applaud any humanitarian goals they had after making their profit.

To Laal Salaam Take my middle finger salaam. I was in india and I saw mental energy being wasted on silliest crap. And Fuck Yeah Free Markets work. It was your kind that increased the number of handlooms in india after indipendence as well as destroying semi functional loan markets. It is your kind that has kept the agricultural masses unproductively used and gave rise to a corrupt industrial and licensing class. In a free market the efficient producer comes to rise, In a licensed market the licensee and their cronies came to power. PS I have been through licensing procedure in india, Infact when i worked for a TV a TV factory, which on paper was employing 30 people(cause any more than 100 caused the babu\’s to show up and clamp down on firing as you are a MSI not an SSI). I gave up that crap and moved to US(via Russia/West Germany) and I saw in my own industry How the indian governments lal salaam babus destroyed 3 generations. And PS I am not an IIT grad, but a polytech grad from a small village in himachal. In the system in india I could not do crap, In US I was able to accomplish some thing without being in the loop with the government, despite being an immigrant with bad english speaking skill, not being a graduate of an upper echelon university. for all the talk of social mobility you saalamis dont have a clue so as to how it happens Also it was quite interesting none of you laal saalami haramis were protesting when HU was in india? What happened to tollerence for minority ? A genocide in Tibet ? I read nothing from you blokes when iranian head of state was in india? you bastards hosted chavez and still insist that india attend non align movement meetings? None of you let out a pipsqueak when the saudi monarch was in india? Thats a repugnant society where a far greater number of indians worked in exploitative situation(with no chance of being naturalized) and what happened….No protest not a pip out of either your lal munh or you laal gand? When bush was in india(going out of his way in his own party to offer india a fair nuclear deal) you bastards were protesting all over. For all the talk about US being an unjust country how doesnt that compare to your cowtowing to china and all the middle eastern countries.

A big middle finger salute to laal Salaami haraami jo madarchod hain (jo bharat maan ko chood rahen hain vo hain madarchod.)

Thank you. If I may say so, your tendency to make wild, unsubstantiated statements (“You haven’t read Amartya Sen”) is going to get you in trouble in other contexts too.