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by makeitdouble 1544 days ago
It’s tricky for both sides to go for a pure capitalist point of view:

- human cancer might never be solved if strong business entities were to rely on the prevalence of cancer

- death of cats might have secundary, tertiary effects that are not clear enough to push businesses to enter the market. We would be looking at the negative impacts without ever realizing what the cause is.

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> Human cancer might never be solved if strong business entities were to rely on the prevalence of cancer

Given the amount of money someone with a patent on a cancer treatment or cure would make, it's hard for me to imagine that

You are referring to a technical solution, but the patented miracle cure could be limited to 1% of the patients and never make it to the rest, if for whatever reason it didn't make economical sense to do so. It's a bit of goal pushing, but I wouldn't call that "solving" cancer.