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> For anyone who thinks this wealth shouldn't appear, let me ask this: if someone could discover a cure for all cancers — how much should they be allowed to ear
by karpierz 4y ago
> For anyone who thinks this wealth shouldn't appear, let me ask this: if someone could discover a cure for all cancers — how much should they be allowed to earn for it?
Say 50 million?
> I.E. What price would you put on the cure for all cancers?
100 billion?
You've asked two separate questions there, but you're implying that the answer to one is the same as the other.
Just because you are capable of extracting a certain amount of wealth in exchange for something, does not mean that you should be able to.
- __pache__ 4y agoSo if I make a pill that cures cancer, _it_ is worth 100bn, but I am only worth 50m? how does that make any sense?
- 3np 4y agoIt can makes sense if you take the position that medicine patents should be heavily reformed. Shoulders and giants - there's no way you actually fully independently discover a cancer-curing pill. And even if you did, its existence would not and should not belong fully to you.
- __pache__ 4y agothat still doesn't make sense. if I make $50bn I am worth a significant amount of that, if not most of it. > its existence would not and should not belong fully to you ...if I didn't make it, it doesn't exist, so it fully belongs to me ..................