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The Corrupted Concept Of Corporate Self-Policing.
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Too many Americans continue to fall for the idea that profit-oriented entities can responsibly self-police their own. When no one is watching the hen house, and this lack of external oversight is telegraphed to the profit foxes, everything will soon taste a lot like a lot of chicken. Self-policed profits are achieved the same way the Sackler’s American opioid epidemic profits were acquired. The coated extended-release Oxycontin tablets produced by Sackler’s Purdue Pharma, caused more deaths than street heroin, even though prescribed by licensed doctors.
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That calamity occurred because Purdue was allowed to watch the opioid henhouse, virtually alone. They courted MD’s to promote their lies about the drug’s benefits, wined and dined FDA regulators, and sold the pills to many doctors who wrote prescriptions for anyone who had the cash. The illicit drug sales, mostly the 80 milligram tablet, amounted to 25% of their revenues of which the Sacklers were greedily aware, via sales tracking. Such corruption succinctly explains why every time we allow corporations to run their own monitoring show, we are asking for big trouble. We must stop shooting-up the corporate sycophancy syrup of chicken shit stupid.
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