[leetnewb]

The local illicit drug dealer comparison doesn't apply because you can't simply ignore the development time and cost of FDA approved drugs. My post was about allocating limited capital to pharmaceutical research, and maximizing benefit.

Again, if your choice is improving quality of care for 100 conditions or trying to moonshot your way to curing one disease, more patients benefit from the former even if pharma also profits more.

[ted_dunning]

Your case is even stronger because understanding the 100 conditions is likely to lead to a few being cured and build the technology base for the moonshoot to be vastly easier.