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By that logic things critical to life like water and food would be extremely expensive while useless things like diamonds or gold bars would be cheap. What ben
by jjk166 3y ago
By that logic things critical to life like water and food would be extremely expensive while useless things like diamonds or gold bars would be cheap.
What benefit would the rich derive by hoarding life extension drugs? Other people taking the same drug as you doesn't make your dose any less effective, nor vice versa.
- paxys 3y agoYou don't need to do some crazy speculation to reach this conclusion. People in the richest countries in the world are dying because they can't afford a shot of insulin or an ambulance or the most basic preventative care. Why will life extending drugs be any different? The only concern will be to maximize profit and not much else.
- shiroiuma 3y agoEven if they could profit by hoarding such drugs, what's going to prevent people from manufacturing the same thing elsewhere? It's just like software "piracy": once the information gets out, there's no way to stop it. Drugs aren't that difficult to manufacture, which is why lots of pharmaceuticals are manufactured, ignoring patent protections, in places like India.