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[-] taiphlosion@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 1 year ago

Lmao just reminds me of this video I watched a while back when a Chinese pharmaceutical company had to negotiate the price of their drug with the government and the way the representative was sweating every time the government rep said lower the price had me so weak. Mans had to call his boss several times and then ended up giving the government the price they wanted anyway 💀

[-] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago

That sounds hilarious, do you have a link by any chance?

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[-] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago

This is enough to make you tear up. Knowing how expensive medicine is in liberal 'democracies'.

This is also one of the reasons it's hard to learn Chinese. You can hear the words but they don't make sense:

Capitalist rep, offering a high price: This is the best we can do.

Chinese official: no

Rinse and repeat

Capitalist rep: This is the absolute lowest we can go.

Chinese official: The price. It sounds like death to me. I think you can shave off four cents.

Capitalist rep, defeated: okay.

Incomprehensible to westerners.

The official knows, too, lol, that the lower the price, the more likely the rep is getting sacked and so might be relying on state medicine without a private parachute. The lower he goes, the greater the incentive to get that price down even lower by both parties. Beautiful.

[-] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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