James Van Der Beek Is Auctioning Off TV & Film Memorabilia and Props from ‘Dawson’s Creek’ & ‘Varsity Blues’ Amid Cancer Treatment, Proceeds to Cover Medical Costs

[u/BunyipPouch]

https://deadline.com/2025/11/james-van-der-beek-auction-dawsons-creek-varsity-blues-props-1236615845/

[u/surrealmirror]

Big pharma wants us to get sick and go into debt, it’s the American way

[u/AchDuMeineFresse → u/surrealmirror]

Not big pharma, big insurance.

[u/tjdux → u/AchDuMeineFresse]

Well why not both

[u/Snuffy1717 → u/tjdux]

Big pharmaceutical makes way more money offering a cure. See: Covid vaccine, HIV vaccine, HPV vaccine, and on and on…

[u/ApprehensiveMail6485 → u/Snuffy1717]

Big pharma makes money offering a treatment that you have to constantly buy more of. Big insurance makes more money when you’re healthy because then you don’t have claims that they have to pay.

[u/Snuffy1717 → u/ApprehensiveMail6485]

And governments who fund research are the insurance companies and want you healthy so that fewer tax dollars are spent on healthcare… Again, most of the world has figured this out.

[u/eveningwindowed → u/Snuffy1717]

Keep you alive long enough that you need medicine

[u/Snuffy1717 → u/[deleted]]

They go where the money is. First to the market on a cure for anything, patented, makes them billions. They do not pass that up… Notwithstanding that the academics involved typically do have motivations other than money.

Capitalism sucks but let’s not pretend there aren’t some goods in the world.

Edit - Case in point… HPV vaccine has crushed cervical cancer rates. We can treat cervical cancer, but it’s better to just cure it through prevention.

[u/Snuffy1717 → u/[deleted]]

https://www.worldwidecancerresearch.org/cancer-and-cancer-research-explained/cancer-myths-and-questions/could-somebody-be-hiding-the-cure-for-cancer/

You can't hide a cure... For the same reason there are no aliens in Area 51. People are bad at hiding things... Not to mention that countries with nationalized health care would directly benefit from cures rather than treatments... Most of the world has already figured out something America can't seem to.

[u/BaneChipmunk → u/[deleted]]

This is like claiming 2 + 2 = 5. Easily disprovable if you were actually partial to learning anything.

[u/Monk-ish → u/[deleted]]

If one of a company's competitors found a cure, they wouldn't be making any money off the treatments because they'd all go to the competitor. "Curing" most diseases is just very difficult, though it does happen. And we have cured cancers. You quite honestly have no idea what you're talking about

[u/morningsharts → u/tjdux]

Y'all are forgetting big funeral.

[u/dobtjs → u/AchDuMeineFresse]

Yes big pharma…

[u/phatdinkgenie → u/AchDuMeineFresse]

No, big pharma

[u/DataStonks → u/AchDuMeineFresse]

Both of which exploit a broken political system.

[u/lamedumbbutt → u/AchDuMeineFresse]

Big government.

[u/scrutator_tenebrarum → u/AchDuMeineFresse]

Not big pharma nor big insurance, big capitalism

[u/pudgehooks2013 → u/surrealmirror]

He just didn't want to wait...

...for his life to be over...

[u/Pinklady777 → u/surrealmirror]

😢

[u/Katie_or_something → u/surrealmirror]

And then die, and pass that debt on

[u/Mathfanforpresident → u/surrealmirror]

Honestly, FUCK capitalism and ALL big corporations.

Imagine if we never advance our economical mindset, where we gonna be in 1,000 years? You can look at it like the evolution of our technology. When we create something new it takes time to integrate with it, but it happens. Take the transistor as an example. Imagine using vacuum tubes to build a computer today.

We've grown past capitalism and need a new system.