For 20 years, federal health and justice officials have concocted and applied a warped set of legal principles which essentially prohibit medical product makers from sharing truthful information (even peer-reviewed journal articles) with doctors about off-label uses.

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For instance, product-service systems like car sharing and tool libraries--in which a product we used to buy and take home becomes a service we use only as needed--offer us access to the products we want at a fraction of the ecological impact.

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It's just that they discovered that the best way to change the world was to take venture capital, or ad revenue, and then to have an IPO, as a means to sharing the product with as many people as possible.

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