“Why Should We Trust Any ‘Big’ Corporation?”
The intersection of healthcare and corporate interests has long been a subject of scrutiny, especially in the context of the pharmaceutical industry. The business model of mainstream pharmaceutical companies, often referred to as “Big Pharma,” prioritizes profits over patients’ well-being. Unfortunately for us, it’s not just Big Pharma we have to watch out for. This clever business model has conveniently bled into other industries, such as the beauty industry, in order to keep people coming back for more.
Big Pharma: Overprescription and Drug Dependency
While allopathic medicine plays a vital role in emergency care and developing new treatments, part of Big Pharma’s sinister business strategy involves prescribing medications to keep people “moderately well” without fully curing them or causing immediate lethal harm. After all, how would a healthy or dead patient continuously make them more money?
This practice ensures that patients remain dependent on medications for extended periods, thus guaranteeing steady pharmaceutical sales. This strategy diverts resources from developing definitive treatments and cures, focusing instead on managing symptoms and prolonging drug dependency.
The overprescription of medications has several implications for public health. First, it can lead to increased drug dependency among patients, with long-term use of certain medications causing adverse side effects or diminishing effectiveness over time. Second, the focus on symptom management over cure can divert resources away from research aimed at finding more definitive treatments or cures for diseases. Lastly, the culture of overprescription contributes to the rising costs of healthcare, placing a financial burden on patients and healthcare systems alike.
Traditional Medicine is Under Attack
Not only are people pressured into taking pharmaceutical drugs to fix their problems, they are discouraged from doing their own research. Traditional, holistic medicine is under attack. And why? Because natural alternatives are bad news for Big Pharma. If holistic medicine is actually curing people, they would have no need to incorporate multiple, expensive, potentially dangerous pharmaceutical drugs into their daily routines. Traditional medicine is under attack because aims to solve problems as a whole from the root, instead of slapping on a band-aid and sending patients home with symptom-masking pills so they have to keep coming back for refills.
The impact of pushing prescription drugs and propagandizing traditional medicine as “quackery” is significant on public health, leading to increased drug dependency, adverse side effects, new chronic conditions, and rising healthcare costs. This raises serious questions about the commitment to patient well-being and undermines the integrity of the healthcare system.
Big Beauty: Manipulative Marketing and Product Dependency
Just like Big Medicine, the beauty industry is adept at identifying and exploiting consumers, marketing a plethora of products that promise to address various perceived flaws, from wrinkles and acne to hair loss and skin tone. These products are often presented as miraculous solutions, capable of transforming one’s appearance to manifest “your best self.” However, beneath the surface of these enticing promises lies a more concerning reality: many beauty products contain harmful chemicals that, while they may offer a temporary improvement in appearance, can have detrimental effects on skin and hair health in the long term.
A Temporary Fix with Long-Term Consequences
The temporary benefits offered by some beauty products are often achieved through the use of chemicals that can be harmful with prolonged use. For example, certain anti-aging creams contain retinoids or alpha hydroxy acids, which can make skin appear smoother and more youthful in the short term. However, these substances can also cause skin irritation, increased sensitivity to sunlight, and, over time, may even exacerbate the signs of aging by thinning the skin, damaging the skin’s barrier, and reducing its natural elasticity. Take a look at these other side effects:
Similarly, hair care products designed to give hair a lustrous, voluminous appearance can contain sulfates, silicones, and alcohols, which strip hair of its natural oils, leading to dryness, breakage, and scalp irritation with long-term use. Initially, these products may deliver on their promise of improved appearance, but the resulting damage necessitates continued use of the same or other products to counteract the adverse effects, thus furthering the cycle of dependency.
Just like Big Pharma’s model, this cycle benefits the beauty industry by ensuring a constant demand for their products at the cost of consumers’ health and well-being. This cycle of dependency is not accidental but a carefully calculated outcome of marketing strategies that prioritize profit over the genuine well-being of consumers.
Wake Up
For those of us who have lived through the COVID years and are awake enough to understand what is happening to our society in the aftermath, our trust in Big Government is waning by the day. It’s important that we stand firm in our standards of care and the way that we are being treated both by our government and by the corporations (i.e. Big Pharma) that are funding our government. Our trust in Big Government is waning, if still present at all. So what is the solution?
Solution
There is an urgent need for greater regulation in all mainstream corporations to eliminate and, moving forward, prevent practices that prioritize profits over patient and consumer well-being. And until that happens, why should we trust that any “Big” corporation has our best interest at heart? As long as corporations are incentivized to make people more dependent on their products or services, money will always be more important to them than doing what’s right.
Ultimately, supporting a parallel economy and fostering companies that value transparency, ethical conduct, and the pursuit of genuine health and well-being is essential for the positive progression of society as a whole.
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Originally published on Substack
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