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#814 - Doctor Mike - Reacting To The Rise Of Anxiety, Microplastics & Antidepressants
Modern Wisdom
Create Problems, Sell Solutions
Society is witnessing a troubling trend where private equity plays a dual role in creating problems and subsequently profiting from their solutions. This cycle starts with private equity firms generating issues, such as producing junk foods that contribute to health epidemics. As these firms continue to create dependencies, they pivot to offer products or treatments, like obesity medicines or testosterone therapy, that position themselves as solutions to the problems they helped create. This dynamic raises concerns about the ethics of problem-solving within a profit-driven framework, akin to setting a fire only to charge for extinguishing it, highlighting a need for scrutiny of health practices and motives behind corporate strategies.
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