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> But neither does profit motive. Sure it does. Developing a cure for 100 people will generated far less profits than a cure for 100,000 people. It's why you
by skookumchuck 7y ago
> But neither does profit motive.
Sure it does. Developing a cure for 100 people will generated far less profits than a cure for 100,000 people.
It's why you see cars get better every year and constant attempts to appeal to the widest customer base possible. (That didn't happen with Soviet built cars, which tended to never improve.)
As for advertising platforms, the customers are the advertisers.
- Swenrekcah 7y agoI don’t dispute that. But in the first paragraph, the side effect is that developing a not-quite-cure treatment for 50,000 people is more profitable than both the others. As for the last paragraph, this is perhaps the essence of the problem. The motive is profit, so we only care about the advertisers. But the users are real people too, and they are getting screwed.
- skookumchuck 7y ago> the side effect is that developing a not-quite-cure treatment for 50,000 people is more profitable than both the others. Until someone else develops a cure and takes all your business away. Recall that a company blinded by greed developed a cure for Hepatitis C, not a treatment.