This, plus, the vaccines were mostly developed with public money/university grants, but for the last 10-20% companies took the rights, made it for-profit and put it under patent to prevent the world from gaining immunity.
The example of the polio vaccine should be standard procedure
you would think that millions of dead and millions suffering from long-covid would be enough incentive to actually focus on providing available vaccines to everybody, even for bourgeois "democracies"...
I usually go with Bandcamp, SoundCloud and YouTube (latter two in rare cases) downloads when I can't find it as a Torrent or on Soulseek (using Nicotine +)
Always been a massive fan of the imperative mandate and am glad to see a pioneering trial of it (ofc not for the idea or it's implementation in general, but this taking place in a relatively large online space) in our little corner of the Fedi-/Lemmyverse!
Capitalism alienates people from their labour. Simulated labour — like in videogames or truck driving/farming sims — returns it to it's "original" state, which is rewarding and fulfilling. But without the (material) barrier of entry and hurdles (like relatively high required effort) that IRL hobbies have
personally, I'm really glad they are not writing kernel level rootkits disguised as games for Linux yet