WHAAAAAAT?! You don't hang around scientists much, do you? The people researching and making these drugs do not make a very good living. Not caring about your

WHAAAAAAT?! You don't hang around scientists much, do you? The people researching and making these drugs do not make a very good living. Not caring about your salary is seen as a mark of a good scientist, I've heard it from many, many people I work under. Most scientists make absolutely crap, even the ones in the pharma sector. The majority of the pharma profits go straight to the business people that make all sorts of weird deals, jack up prices after cornering the market, get certain chemicals/processes banned so they can re-patent the same drug under a new mechanism, etc. >Why spend years getting a PhD in biochemistry when you can go make $400k/year with just a BS at Google? Because they like the work and find it interesting, go ask literally any scientist today. Reducing the profitability of pharma companies will hardly move the salaries for scientists because they are not at all tied to profits.