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He also explores contributions by visionaries like Andy Warhol, 50 Cent and Dr. Yuref Hamied, who was called a pirate and a thief after producing anti-HIV drugs for Third World countries that cost as little as $1 a day to produce.
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Hmmm. Should we be applauding someone who ignores the patent rights of drugs companies who have spent
billions developing those drugs, and who need to recover those costs by selling the drugs? It's not the cost of the chemicals or the manufacturing process that determines the price of drugs, but the R&D costs. Those drugs wouldn't exist had that money not been spent.
So yes, I'd certainly go along with calling this "Dr. Yuref Hamied" a "pirate and a thief" if he manufactured drugs which were still under patent without paying the appropriate fee to the patent holder. Or is he suggesting, I wonder, that people have some God-given "right" to drugs without paying for them?