Big pharma is a very peculiar industry: it's saddled with millions of dollars in compliance costs and regulation so as to not kill the population. A government

Big pharma is a very peculiar industry: it's saddled with millions of dollars in compliance costs and regulation so as to not kill the population. A government mandated intellectual monopoly could be justified there, to compensate the inherent costs of safe medical innovation. By comparison, the tech industry has zero compliance costs and it's essentially a wild west.