> There are precisely zero things that were deliberately made to be more expensive than their intrinsic cost by a small group of “rich people and dictators”

Setting aside the fact that 0) US healthcare is pretty much all “things being made more expensive than their intrinsic cost”, believing 1) the market in a democracy is not affected by information asymmetry and 2) a dictator-kleptocrat elsewhere even needs to manipulate prices hints at immense naivety on your part.

> shut up

If it’s my mention of the June 4th incident that triggered such reaction, I hope the Party pays you well enough to justify the stress that reading Western media must be to you.

> you have no right to pose as some kind of intellectual

And you have clearly run out of substance to present.