Pharma is the prime example. A 'good' drug does not cure, it temporary mitigates and 'idealy' makes you even more susceptible, requiring recurrent future consum

Pharma is the prime example. A 'good' drug does not cure, it temporary mitigates and 'idealy' makes you even more susceptible, requiring recurrent future consumption. This requires no great conspiracy or planning. Time and the market will disappear companies that eradicate the disease they solved, while persisting and elevating those that stumbled upon the dependency route, and inside those companies teams pursuing platforms resulting in success of the latter kind will rise to prominence and at that stage the company will protect the goose that lays the golden eggs even if that means mothballing internal research that finds a real cure or aquiring outsiders to do the same. None of the pharma products raking in billions upon billions actually solve a condition. All require perpetual consumption to at best stay in the mitigated state.