@LisaKalayji I believe you mean "cronyism". What do you think holds others back from competing in this space? Moderna, Pfizer...these companies do not have a monopoly on information or effective technology. They DO have something much more effective; permission from the government to sell you something. The government are the ones controlling what you're allowed to put into your own body, and who you can buy it from.
@AlexanderKingsbury I'd clarify one thing in your comment: it's not that they have permission from government to sell you something but that they have the government *blocking others from selling it.*
Their monopoly isn't natural but rather artificial, enforced by threat of enforcement action against anyone else who would enter the market to compete.
Yep, it's cronyism, but when you identify the mechanism it zeros in on the problem and also sounds worse.
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