There seems to be a consensus here towards throwing money at getting more vaccines. I think I agree with the reasoning, except possibly for the way that letting vaccine companies make large profits in pandemics encourages vaccine companies to start and spread pandemics.
How confident should we be that no company would do anything that evil?
Pretty confident. The penalties (individual, not corporate) for getting caught doing such a thing without very strong government/military support would be pretty painful, including violent mobs literally tearing one to pieces.
Note my argument for throwing more money at this is two-fold:
there are multiple companies involved. As long as the money is thrown with relatively objective results targeting, competition makes it mostly work.
I personally would throw quite a bit of money to get myself, friends, and loved ones vaccinated weeks earlier. There’s clearly transactional surplus going to waste.
There seems to be a consensus here towards throwing money at getting more vaccines. I think I agree with the reasoning, except possibly for the way that letting vaccine companies make large profits in pandemics encourages vaccine companies to start and spread pandemics.
How confident should we be that no company would do anything that evil?
I don’t think they would, but …
Pretty confident. The penalties (individual, not corporate) for getting caught doing such a thing without very strong government/military support would be pretty painful, including violent mobs literally tearing one to pieces.
Note my argument for throwing more money at this is two-fold:
there are multiple companies involved. As long as the money is thrown with relatively objective results targeting, competition makes it mostly work.
I personally would throw quite a bit of money to get myself, friends, and loved ones vaccinated weeks earlier. There’s clearly transactional surplus going to waste.