They've also promised to hold prices steady. How noble of them. You'd think with all the generousity being poured out from people and companies all over this country in response to this national emergency/war, that they would not JUST hold prices steady but cut the price, even a bit. As of now Chipro, as I heard reported on ABC Talk Radio news goes for $11 a pop. Seems to me like Bayer is looking to rake in the bucks big time on this crisis.
A disturbing and little-known aspect of the Nazi slave labor system was the involvement of big business.
Many of the most respected German corporations had no scruples about using concentration camp labor. A company’s decision to use slave labor was voluntary. By the end of 1944, one half a million ghetto and concentration camp inmates were chained to hundreds of corporations. The greatest offenders were either state-owned enterprises – such as BRABAG, the Herman Goring Works, and Volkswagen – or munitions and arms makers, such as Junkers, Messerschmitt, Heinkel, Krupp, Dynamit Nobel, and Rheinmetall-Borsig. By 1943, almost every major private corporation was complicit, including BMW, AEG-Telefunken, Siemens, Daimler-Benz, Schering, and the component firms of IG Farben,
namely Bayer, BASF, Hoechst, and Agfa. German divisions of American firms were equally guilty, such as Ford and General Motors’ Opel.
LinkI can't say that I blame Bayer really. They're being sued for gazillions by Americans who were too stupid to read the directions on their Lipobay and the U.S. courts will probably hand out some outlandish settlements. I can hardly blame them for wanting to recoup some of those losses.