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by siliconc0w 165 days ago
You could tax people according to their means, record usage, multiply by impact, and disperse accordingly. Set guaranteed purchase orders and x-prize style payouts, etc. Hard but not impossible.

Maybe we get a few less drugs but I'd bet we'd see more curative cheap drugs we need desperately like antibiotics which are an economic dead-end today rather than the cost escalating for-life stop-gaps like statins, diabetes drugs, biologics, ed drugs, hair treatments, etc.