Addison Martin
Dallas Buyers Club - 2083
Spring-2022
Professor Bylund
Dallas Buyers Club
This movie Dallas Buyers Club starts off with a cowboy that rodeos named Ron Woodroof. Ron doesn’t have a very clean lifestyle doing drugs, alcohol, and having unprotected sex. With these lifestyle choices and one in particular (unprotected sex) Ron starts to become very ill and rushed to the hospital. Ron then is diagnosed with HIV which he doesn’t believe and is only projected thirty more days to be alive. There is no cure for this illness as told but there are supposedly drugs in other countries that are not FDA approved in the United States but do work. Ron branches off to other doctors in other countries that can sell him the drugs. When doing this, this is when Ron had the idea to buy in bulk and bring it across the border to sell to other HIV positive people. This shows entrepreneurship because Ron saw a problem that a lot of people were facing including himself and couldn't really do anything about it because no one could find a doctor to prescribe the medicine that was not FDA approved. Ron knew he could sell plenty of it knowing people couldn't get it anywhere else and because their life was on the line. Ron would make runs back and forth from different countries to acquire these drugs and technically Ron was not selling drugs he was selling a membership. Ron saw a problem people were facing and came up with a solution that had a very high market being the only one in that type of business in the United States.
I found this movie interesting because of the turn it makes. At the beginning I was wondering who was going to be the entrepreneur because Ron did not look like he was cut out to be one. With crazy things happening in his life he took advantage of it. He saw a way he could help others, make money, and help himself. I also thought it was interesting how he was selling a membership and not drugs. I feel like that was an interesting loophole that helped him with some things. I also wouldn’t have thought of something like this but with the membership he was making more money and more affordable than the drugs the doctors were giving that did not work.
Ron had a very good relationship with society and they loved doing business with him. The reason society liked it so much and had a good relationship with Ron the entrepreneur was because he was the only person to get the drugs from. Being the only person having a business that no one else has thought of or has will do great especially when it helps society to this extent. There was a separate part of society that reacted differently. The doctors and law enforcement did not like this and did not have a good relationship. The customers were the only thing Ron wanted to have a good relationship with at the time.