How about prizes as a way of funding R&D? It's a different kind of profit motive, and it doesn't rely on monopolies and rent extraction to make things profitabl

How about prizes as a way of funding R&D? It's a different kind of profit motive, and it doesn't rely on monopolies and rent extraction to make things profitable. Once a drug is developed, it can be reproduced at close to cost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prizes_as_an_alternative_to_patents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prizes_as_an_alternative_to_pa...