tranarchist:

youthincare:

blastingradio:

truagh-mo-thuras:

justsomeantifas:

capitalism stops the growth of knowledge, when one is forced to work endless hours to simply survive, they never get a chance to research and improve their surroundings. there is no way you can argue it’s the most efficient way to “advance” society technologically, academically, etc.

this even goes beyond the whole “humans always have to work to survive blah blah” most of us are working far more hours than humans did a hundred thousand years ago to survive lmao. here’s the shocker they had far more free time than we do lmao. 

there’s no excuse for the amount of hours people are forced to work, when the vast majority of it is simply busywork that does nothing to improve the lives of people, and creates grotesque amounts of excess waste never to be used.

all that fucking labor appropriated and for what? to be thrown in a landfill or the ocean, etc. and to deplete our scarce resources? yeahhhh real conducive to societal advancement right there.

Under capitalism, research only gets done when you can find someone to fund it.

While there are non-profit bodies that fund research without immediate economic benefit, the vast majority of funding, especially in the sciences and engineering, goes to research that is profitable, or at least can be presented as such.

Not does capitalism diminish the potential pool of researchers and ancillary staff, it actively disincentivizes research in a potentially infinite range of areas.

And then what research IS done is hidden behind paywalls so few can read and build on it

Yup, AND only specific things get funded because… finding the differences between men and women (cis most likely in this case) is more interesting than finding the similarities between genders… because there are really not many differences that can differentiate an identifying male and female apart. 

But why would they not find actual legitimiate research ideas… he study-able? Becuase like the person above said, it has to be profitable. AND thats the only way to have your studies have legitimacy is funding by the State. 

That means there are NECESSARY things we need to study for people’s health and we will NEVER be able to consistently research most of them, which is maybe why marginalized people disproportionately discriminated against when using medical services. 

Trans healthcare is a very clear case of a damaging absence of necessary research due to a lack of profitability, especially concerning the effects of HRT:

The fact that HRT consists of generic drugs that have been on the market
for years makes it far less likely that pharmaceutical companies will
ever spearhead further research. “There’s no money to be made,” Deutsch
says. “Nobody’s going to go do Phase III trials on a medicine that’s
been generic for 15 years.”

There are other factors working against transgender people when it
comes to pharma-led research into trans medicine. Prescription
medication is profitable when it can be sold to consumers. Like most
people, trans people rely on insurance to pay for medications, but many
providers exclude coverage for transgender-related treatment. “If we
don’t have any insurance coverage, it’s not a big market for them,”
White says.

The failure to conduct research into cross-sex HRT
could be a failure to ensure the safety of medically necessary,
lifesaving medication for an entire demographic of American people

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