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Elaborate on “default alternative”? Aren’t there many alternatives? Why is one a default?

• _aavaa_ 2y ago
  The option of doing nothing would be the default since it doesn’t cost them any time, people, or resources. Any other option requires sustained positive actions on their part. There are many versions, alternatives, to what that course would take, but it wouldn’t be the default since they require work. They are already not making drugs for any number of diseases and illnesses, that’s the default. To change course on those they need a good reason.
  • mattmaroon 2y ago
    I’ve been not inventing drugs for 44 consecutive years. All this time I didn’t even know I was just defaulting.
  • TaylorAlexander 2y ago
    Huh. I suppose I meant that if we as a society decide we don’t want them to charge a lot for drugs, an alternative is publicly funded drug research. “Not making drugs” doesn’t strike me as an alternative solution.