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by mulmen 3068 days ago
Ok but what if it's just really expensive?

You know, like healthcare, or trips to the moon.

People with a lot of money get access to things before people without a lot of money.

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Like micro processors, the marginal cost of manufacturing a drug is minimal. The R&D is the expensive bit.

Even gene therapy, is primarily bounded by R&D and then delivery may or may not be expensive, I don’t know.