Live while you are alive
“Price gouging in the US pharmaceutical drug industry goes back more than three decades. “In 1985 US Representative Henry Waxman, chair of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, accused the pharmaceutical industry of “gouging the American public” with “outrageous” price increases, driven by “greed on a massive scale.” “Even in the wake of …
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Nearly two-thirds of childless British single adults aged 20-34 have either never left the family home, or have moved back into it, according to new research into the “boomerang” generation. There are now an estimated 3.5 million young single adults living with their parents in the UK, a third more than a decade ago. (The …
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Happy holidays to all the readers of Epicurus.Today! May everything calm down May the hungry be fed May the US Constitution survive and even be strengthened May the welfare of the citizens take precedence over political advantage May the new Administration take over peacefully and may it be successful. May everyone get vaccinated and the …
“Humanius est deridere vitam quam deplorare”. Laugh at life, don’t cry over it. (Seneca the Younger, “De Tranquillitate Animi”, IIi, 8)
At the end of the 4th Century A.D Ammianus complained that the Roman Empire had lost its cultural moorings and had descended into a state of triviality, where scholarship was no longer respected and fewer and fewer people read anything at all. (Sound familiar?)
