This is all beside the point. It is incredibly difficult to carve a palace into a grain of rice inside a bottle. There is no great profit in it, though. Pharma

This is all beside the point. It is incredibly difficult to carve a palace into a grain of rice inside a bottle. There is no great profit in it, though. Pharma is profitable not because it is difficult but because its customers are desperate, have limited choices, and are dependent on experts to make those choices; experts who also profit from the market failure inherent in medicine.