This is absolutely true -- you don't see drug researchers on yachts. The people actually doing the work aren't rich as avarice, it's the people who turn their w

This is absolutely true -- you don't see drug researchers on yachts. The people actually doing the work aren't rich as avarice, it's the people who turn their work into a "business". People doing groundbreaking work are motivated to do the work for whatever reason, and it's seldom money. There are more important things to them, whether it's simply doing Good, or status, or it fascinates them, or whatever. The guy who invented insulin sold the patent for a dollar. New drugs and therapies are often developed outside these big companies anyway, and they just buy them, run them through the certification, and then sell them at incredible markup. The money's not in development, it's in the business side of things. We've (some of us, at least) so bought into the argument that the world needs to be this way that we totally ignore these things actually get done.