@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 @LisaKalayji they do have a monopoly on the information/technology that is required to make their vaccine. Patents.
So much of the information is public. They don't have a monopoly on that.
They DO have a government enforced monopoly on *use of* that information, and that's what we should be reevaluating, the circumstances in which government should offer to enforce such monopolies.
@AlexanderKingsbury @LisaKalayji@sfba.social
@volkris patented information is public by definition but the monopoly concerns the right to utilize it.
