1913: The World's Richest Man Invests into Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel
In order to disperse public and political pressure on him and other robber-barons Rockefeller uses a trick called “philanthropy”: he uses the illegal gains from his robber-practices in the oil business to launch the Rockefeller Foundation. This tax haven was used to strategically take over the health care sector in the U.S..
The Rockefeller Foundation was the front organization for a new global business venture of Rockefeller and his accomplices. This new venture was called the pharmaceutical investment business. Donation from the Rockefeller Foundation went only to medical schools and hospitals, which had become missionaries of patented pharmaceutical drugs, developed by a new breed of companies, manufacturers of patented, synthetic drugs.
This was also the time, when the first vitamins were discovered. It soon became clear, that these natural molecules had live-saving health benefits and were able to prevent many chronic health conditions. The first books appeared with abandoned research about the health benefits of vitamins. These newly discovered molecules had only one disadvantage: they were non-patentable.
Thus, already in its first years of existence, the pharmaceutical investment business faced a mortal thread: vitamins and other micronutrients promoted as public health programs would prohibit the development of any sizable investment business based on patented drugs. The elimination of this unwanted competition from natural micronutrients became a question of life and death for the pharmaceutical business.
