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> But in business, this trope is implying "You're free to abandon your career, study chemical engineering, get financing to start a lab, hire a large staff of e
by paulriddle 8y ago
> But in business, this trope is implying "You're free to abandon your career, study chemical engineering, get financing to start a lab, hire a large staff of experts, buy the machinery, run an advertising campaign, establish the customer base ..."
On the other hand, this trope also implies that you have to pay for all of this, and perphaps $13 is not a good price for the drug.
What is an appropriate price for this drug?
You say it's abuse and incompetence, but could it be that you're wrong and it's a rational decision?
- kristopolous 8y agoAbuse and incompetence can be perfectly "rational" depending on what you value in life. And the point was about existing infrastructure. The drug existed, and made money, at $13, using paid for infrastructure that did other things, made other drugs as well, run by an existing staff that had other tasks. You don't buy a car to drive 1 mile or start a restaurant to serve 1 meal. Instead, an existing company should make a competitor, say Imprimis Pharmaceuticals, which did so in 2015 for $1.00 each. This is fundamentally about abusing power and position for profit and saying others should get the same power and position to stop the abuse. My only contention is that isn't reality and the world doesn't work that way.
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