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The Needs Of The Few Outweigh The Many: Opioid Sacklers Are Still Selling Rx Worldwide
The billionaire drug kingpins remain wealthy and free despite being found liable for 500,000 deaths and ordered to pay $6 billion in settlements for their addiction-based opioid business model.
Do you remember the Star Trek film where Spock sacrificed his own life to save the Enterprise, telling his best friend Kirk, “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?”
We’re living in a world that’s the exact opposite.
Among us are people who amass massive fortunes and live lives that nearly all of Earth’s 8 billion people can’t comprehend. Their wealth and prestige all derive from the physical, psychological, and economic exploitation of millions of others and our very planet.
People talk about “capitalism.” There’s a level beyond pure financial exploitation, and its best-known practitioners are the opioid Sackler family.
In some cases, these billionaires have become incalculably wealthy and powerful through the exploitation, destruction of life, and ultimate death of hundreds of thousands of people.
