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The normalisation would work towards allowing the drug companies to be comfortable with a rent-seeking scenario, where they have a huge population that has litt
by rmellow 7y ago
The normalisation would work towards allowing the drug companies to be comfortable with a rent-seeking scenario, where they have a huge population that has little choice but to use their services, at whatever cost.
And of course, that might mean an actual cure is detrimental to the bottom line, which might impact funding for any of these studies.
- boyband6666 7y agoExcept for the fact that it's expensive to keep people on HIV meds, thus increasing the value of a cure. And the meds are made by lots of companies in competition - if anyone had science they thought would lead to a cure, they would be all over that straight away. This also assumes that the only motivation is money, if a researcher came up with a cure for HIV they would become an instantaneous scientific god, immortalised in writing, films, having streets and libraries named after them. They would be a hero. That motivation is pretty powerful for many (not for all of those things, but the be a hero part).