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The fossil fuel industry can exist fine without subsidies. Where else can people get cheaper fuel?

Yes and their university medical research typically requires infrastructure and funding, which are often provided by for profit pharma corporations.

Modern vaccines and new drugs are vastly more expensive. It costs for example over $1 billion to fund a new drug.

Is a PE hospital profiting when it denies care too? How is that different from a lasik surgeon denying care?

Many are but they also work with for profit pharma companies to fund the work.

How would vaccines and new drugs be invented without any profit incentive?

Should a Lasik surgeon provide Lasik to everyone regardless of their ability to pay?

That is a "working paper" and has not been peer reviewed.

In that scenario, the bank's profits wouldn't change so why would that affect the stock and his pay?

History hasn't taught you anything about communism?

Not if you have insurance which most do.

Well good luck with that but customers don't determine CEO pay.

It has actually if you understood economics.

The last time I was at the DMV, I waited 4 hours for a 10 minute appointment.

This is spoken like someone who knows nothing about Ruby.

All of your arguments in this subthread have been ad hominem attacks.

99% of programming jobs outside of America must be insulting to you.

"The average total compensation of a Software Engineer in Spain is €55,437." "The average total compensation of a Software Engineer in Portugal is €39,094."

It was Moderna and they are not a grant funded university lab

"Shareholder primacy" led to the invention of modern vaccines and mRNA discoveries. Was this a poor longterm corporate investment?

Yeah, all those vaccine inventors from Harvard that became staggeringly rich are what's wrong with society. /s

Didn't Effective Altruism recently purchase a $15,000,000 mansion to host their get togethers?