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because people are allowed to fix their own issues, and also allowed to put their name on their work in the public eye.

neither, generally, would be possible in the scenario you describe.




please note that I am not OP.

How about 'generic' drugs? are they the best 'manufactured' they can be?


Generally?

No. But will meet regulatory minimums insofar as active ingredients, purity, etc.

They don’t have a monopoly like the OP described, however. If they did? Yikes…

Notably, that kind of economy is roughly how the USSR ran, and no one praised it when it died.




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