| > Before the patent, anyone could Anyone could, but nobody did, or would have without either a profit motive or massive state funding. > Do you think that's not a problem? Well it’s certainly not the most ideal thing you can imagine, but I don’t see a better way in a capitalist society to incentivize medical research. Do you? > People who think this disease is important will crowdfund the research I’m not aware of any crowdfunding campaign that has raised hundreds of millions of dollars. > How do you think we should incentivize things like environmental research? It should be funded by the state > What if someone found a cure? That’d be awesome. We should pay them incredibly handsomely for their work. |