My husband works in India and comes back once every two months. Every time he comes back, someone asks him to bring medicine. Among the people who entrusted him are ordinary employees and former executives of BAT.
It is difficult and expensive to treat a disease, which is a problem for both the commoners and the rich. At one-third or even lower price, you can buy medicines with the same curative effect and ingredients, which the poor need as much as the rich.
In the movie, Xu Zheng said "Life is money" when he first went to India to get the agency. It's a footnote for this movie.
Right to life
I am very fortunate to live in today's era. In the world after the Enlightenment, life has become extremely important. After World War II, with the improvement of the quality of life and the development of science and technology, especially medicine, people's life expectancy has increased significantly.
Looking at the data, taking China as an example, the average life expectancy during the Republic of China was only 35 years old. Even after liberation, in 1958, it was only 57 years old. In 81 years after the reform and opening up, it was 68 years old, and in 2015, the average life expectancy was 76.34 years old. years old and women approaching 80.
This improvement is so dramatic that it is difficult to picture a young world with an average life expectancy of 35 years. Because of this, longevity has become something that people take for granted.
Live, live longer, because the future will be better.
If life were a stock market chart, our expectation was that it would keep going higher and material conditions would keep improving, so no one wanted to sell. When you encounter the risk of closing your position, you have to invest a lot of money to get the position back on track.
Life is enjoyable. No one wants to give up.
money
The greatest invention of capitalist society is to link capital and money with people's social status. At least for 99% of people. With every doubling of your assets, you can experience different treatment and the gazes of those around you.
Although it is said that the problems that money can solve are small problems. But when the amount of money is large enough that it becomes a problem for most people, it really becomes a problem.
There are many ways to play with money.
All kinds of full screening and physical examinations in Japan, more than 20,000 per person. Silicon Valley bigwigs are playing themselves with the blood of young people to continue their lives. The founder of Google, using the parent company, invests wildly in bioscience.
Liu Cixin once wrote an article "The Ladder of Eternal Life". When being interviewed, he made no secret that he would work hard to make money, use money to continue his life, and set foot on the ladder of immortality.
intellectual property
It is a fact and helpless that anticancer drugs are expensive.
The research and development cycle of new drugs is often more than ten years, and there is still the risk of unsuccessful research and development during this period, and the research and development personnel often start with a doctorate. The state and society also need a lot of resources to cultivate a doctorate.
After a new drug is developed, the sales cycle is often only a few years, because other types of drugs with the same or better effect will soon come out.
Drug research and development is often the behavior of commercial companies, with extremely high risks. In the eyes of the commercial society, it can only be compensated with extremely high returns. Therefore, drugs are expensive, and drugs for rare diseases are more expensive, which has become the basic ethics of business society.
And intellectual property is there to protect R&D. If revenue is destroyed, no commercial companies will invest in R&D, and the speed of new drug R&D will be affected.
Therefore, in the episode, the Swiss medical representative wanted to trace the Indian medicine, which was blackened artistically. And in fact, from a commercial civilization point of view, they are legal, Indian drugmakers are illegal.
three fork road
It is a pity that India has too many poor people and too many sick people. Any time the number exceeds a certain stage, their demands will trample the rules.
Therefore, Indian companies have a large number of very low-cost generic drugs, trampling commercial civilization under another brutal and barbaric appeal: we want to live.
The government is basically acquiescing to this. This fork in the road is extremely interesting. Capitalist civilization has brought prosperity to life. Conversely, because the prosperity of life has led to people’s desire for life, commercial civilization has once again stepped on feet.
There is a very interesting scene in the movie. When Xu Zheng went to India for the second time, a passerby pulled the statue of Shiva through the market, surrounded by onlookers. In the last scene, Xu Zheng was in the prison car, passing through the crowd like Shiva.
Although he was in the prison car, the two intentions set off each other, giving Xu Zheng's character divine.
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