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> Bill Gates has no real ability to cure polio or malaria, other than by throwing money at the problem. This is far too simplistic. Throw a bunch of money at a
by johnfn 8y ago
> Bill Gates has no real ability to cure polio or malaria, other than by throwing money at the problem.
This is far too simplistic. Throw a bunch of money at advertising and everyone goes to work for FAANG. Shift some of that money to disease research and suddenly people - who might have otherwise become doctors or followed a career path that paid - start realizing its a valid career path that they don’t need to sacrifice quality of life to pursue.
Yes, it’s not something that will happen overnight (it’s not like everyone immediately switched to coding once FAANG started paying a lot), but if the money is there, it will start to happen.
- magduf 8y agoIt's very easy to shift from some other programming work (where you have a degree in CS or similar) to working for FAANG. You can't take a CS degree and start working in disease research, any more than you can get an MBA and start in disease research. The time to get people on that track is when they're coming out of high school. You can't take doctors and have them work in disease research either. They'll have the necessary undergrad work most likely, but all the med school stuff just isn't useful for it, and they'll have to start over with the postdoc studies to specialize in that research. After they've already invested a fortune in med school, they're not going to do that. Who's going to pay all these people to move away from more lucrative fields into research?
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