Oh I think we know the answer to that. It'd be the same, even if pharma and other consumer industries were reigned in. They're all terrified of death, but their collective fear of losing their own personal American dream is much more palpable. They feel entitled to the niceties of their parents, regardless of reality. Mind you that this is a reality that lawmakers of their generation are fighting tooth and nail to further. It's an ouroboros of boomer/early gen x trash.