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In the case of the pandemic, people have other incentives than financial. I don't agree, it seems to me that almost nobody who innovates does it for money, peo
by js8 5y ago
In the case of the pandemic, people have other incentives than financial.
I don't agree, it seems to me that almost nobody who innovates does it for money, people do it for fame, curiosity, desire to fix a problem. (All progress depends on unreasonable men.) Rather, it's people who organize innovators who do it for money, and the question if they need to be renumerated in patents is legitimate.
- johncolanduoni 5y agoThe innovators in pharmaceutical research need large amounts of money to run the studies to show safety and effectiveness of their inventions, to say nothing of the even more hit or miss discovery process. It’s conceivable we could pay for that in a different manner than patents and high US drug prices, but that cost can’t just be handwaved away.