Best of 2023: Big Pharma Rigs the Game / Julia Rock

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🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Today's episode features our second-most played interview of 2023, according to SoundCloud's data. Reporter, public records requester, researcher Julia Rock joins us to discuss her article at The Lever, "How Big Pharma Actually Spends Its Massive Profits: New research shows that pharmaceutical companies have spent more on enriching shareholders than drug research and development over the past decade." After the interview, we read more of your answers to this week's Question from Hell and an all-new installment of Rotten History from Renaldo Migaldi. Check out Julia's article here: https://www.levernews.com/how-big-pharma-actually-spends-its-massive-profits/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	I'm going to The water is with the
0:15.0	with the
0:16.0	work that our power in the way.
0:19.0	Make a job.
0:21.0	Make a job. Picket back! This is hell.
0:40.0	hell.
0:44.0	Okay.
0:46.0	Behind every great fortune lies a great crime because this is hell and that's a tagline we have used a lot on the
0:56.9	show this year in 2023 and we wish we did not have to be repeatedly
1:02.1	reminded that the market incentivizes unethical and immoral behavior.
1:07.0	While the establishment media ain't interested in doing so, we're more than willing to point out that capitalism allows for a lot of profit
1:14.5	to be made by violating democratically agreed upon rules and engaging in
1:18.7	behavior that is harmful to others actions that can lead to others' suffering and even their deaths.
1:27.0	Yes, capitalism and capitalists kill and both are enriched by their deadliness.
1:32.3	The topic came up in January when we spoke with
1:35.1	Christopher Ketchum on luxury emissions. We played that conversation with Chris
1:39.0	earlier this week as the first interview of our annual year and celebration the best of this is how
1:44.4	the favorite interviews of you know as chosen by listeners and staff members of this is how
1:51.8	the best of 2023 continues today and throughout
1:54.8	all of December as well as the first week of January 2024. The discussion we
1:59.8	are playing next is a talk we had only one week after we spoke with Christopher Ketchum on luxury
2:04.8	missions and why we need to end tourism now as Chris says. Only one week later we spoke with
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