[_aavaa_]

Putting aside cats, there are plenty of diseases that impact humans which don’t get researched enough due to very rare, e.g. <1 in 100 million people.

> maybe not that big of an actual need Not that big of a need to who? It’s certainly a very big need to the people who suffer from or are dying from rare problems.

[ridaj]

> Putting aside cats, there are plenty of diseases that impact humans which don’t get researched enough due to very rare, e.g. <1 in 100 million people.

Sure, and is that a problem? Should we as a society not apportion medical research spend to the most impactful areas? I'm curious to what extent the misalignment of incentives is due to capitalism as opposed to the actual need being lopsided

> It’s certainly a very big need to the people who suffer from or are dying from rare problems.

I totally agree. At the same time society cannot put all of its resources in support of very rare cases at the expense of common issues of similar seriousness

[zaptrem]

Sometimes fixing rare, obscure bugs others haven't bothered with can lead to massive discoveries. Everybody could be banging their head into the wall because it looks most profitable, maybe you could be the one to crawl through the window instead.