Why is Big Pharma essential?
Expand your thinking past cures.
Think Google [new Pixel phone].
Think Apple [vs. Samsung].
Why was Blackberry destroyed?
We can guide but you must organically uncover the TRUTH.
THEY are watching.
ARCHIVE EVERYTHING OFFLINE.
Big Pharma is essential for multiple reasons, but basically it has been a tool and all the little piggies line up at the trough while doing the bidding of their masters:
1) absolute control of the medical industry in virtually every way.
2) a huge bureaucracy was created for health insurance due to the high cost of healthcare.
3) health insurance mandated by law allowed the creation of databases with everyone in them.
4) standardized codes and increasing complexity of testing (DNA tests) and medical history allows for proactive screening.
5) no way to challenge the data in the database, once it's there it's forever.
6) the barriers to entry and cost of bringing a new drug to market is such that big pharma is an oligarchy that prevents outside competition.
Goodbye Privacy.
Hello Control
Medical databases can be searched for particular conditions both good and bad. Statistical review of patients can be correlated to specific doctors to identify the doctors who are stepping off the reservation in terms of unorthodox treatments, as well as identify the doctors with poor records. That information is useful.
Medical databases can be searched as part of a job applicant's screening in the same way as criminal background checks and further tied to an individuals school history (grades, behavioral evaluations, everything) and Social Media history in such a way to reject anyone who doesn't toe the party line.
Google is a key player in this private intelligence collection
Communication
Blackberry had to be destroyed because of privacy issues. It had pin-to-pin encryption and the fact that all messaging and emails went through RIM's servers in Canada. Which means the IP address always came up in Canada and there was no way to locate the sender. The Blackberry was built around security.
As a security feature, the GPS location information could definitely be turned off with a Blackberry. That and the encryption was one of the reasons governments and high-value individuals used them. In short, the Blackberry was a professional tool for communication that provided real privacy.
Apple, Google and Samsung phones all give the local IP address on emails and send out geolocation data by default. Google phones collect Geolocation info even when no apps are running. It would be easy to build into the OS such that it can't really be turned off on any of them. Then, anyone who turns off the geolocation data becomes suspect.
Unlike Blackberries, the iPhones and Androids are primarily designed for entertainment, meaning FB and other social media… which gathers more information on the people. They're tracking devices tied to individual identity and generate enormous amounts of information.
I believe we're already at the point of Law Enforcement getting location data that corresponds to the scene of a crime in order to determine who was in that place at that time. Data leaches are already being used to extract everything in smartphone memory for later review by Law Enforcement. Waiting for "Stop and Frisk" to become "Stop and Sniff" to get personal data out of cell phones. Information gets dropped into relational databases and much misery can result.
Operating System Control
Years ago the major competition on the upper end of phones was between the iPhone and the Blackberry. Then Samsung jumped in and the competition between the iPhone and Samsung essentially drove the Blackberry out of the market. What if Google is competing directly with Samsung to drive the iPhone out of the market, leaving the Android operating system as the default OS? Google controls the Android OS.
The intelligence problem has always been the anthill view. Kick over an anthill and see the ants come boiling out. You can see them, but how do you drill down and identify individuals or learn about specific individuals? If the current strategy is for the Google Pixel to go head to head with Samsung, Apple could be put out of business in the same way that Blackberry was.
That would give Google control of the dominant phone OS, in control of almost all the cell phones. Google's Android OS isn't the same as Android Open Source.
Again, goodbye privacy, hello control, no real choice in the matter.