(August 22, 2016 at 2:22 pm)paulpablo Wrote:(August 22, 2016 at 2:09 pm)ScienceAf Wrote: So I've been talkin' with my dad about capitalism.
He said that you can't make much money from cures after a while...
So... People would frame you or kill you to prevent you releasing the cure to the public.
He says it's possible that cures have been found but kept away.
Is there a way to make money from cures in the U.S? Well in any capitalist (maybe socialist) country that doens't care about it's people unlike Jordan, Norway, Denmark, etc.
Well your dad wasn't talking about not making any money from a cure.
I think his point is that you can get more money in the very long term by selling gradual treatment rather than selling one individual cure, and if you cure something completely then you will have destroyed your own market for selling.
But I think it's fairly safe to say if an organization found a cure for HIV they would be set up with money for at least their own lifetime?
There's probably lots of ethical questions surrounding stuff like this.
They would still want to make the money.
If you could make a million a year and life with it and do what ever fine.
But why not make 9 million more easily?
That's what would happen.
