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Lets be clear on how all this works. Someone made a drug, and they want all of the money for their work. Maybe that's justified, maybe it isn't. But because
by AnarchismIsCool 2y ago
Lets be clear on how all this works.
Someone made a drug, and they want all of the money for their work.
Maybe that's justified, maybe it isn't.
But because we use money as both our dopamine reward and also the entire basis of how we allocate all scarce resources in our finite reality, and because patents are the only way for them to get said dopamine reward/resources, the strat is to just let millions of people sit in the crossfire while we work out what kind of money they should get.
- throwawaymaths 2y ago> patents are the only way for them Citation needed.
- okasaki 2y agoToo bad there's no drug that cuts down on greed.
- carlmr 2y agoI read that Ozempic works against all cravings, even addictions. Maybe we can cure money addiction.
- mrguyorama 2y agoIf ketamine can't chill these people out, I'm not sure there's a chemical solution. Their brains might just be yet another neurodivergency.
- CatWChainsaw 2y agoThey come back from ayahuasca trips thinking they've unlocked some profound knowledge after experiencing ego death but in the end they just tweak what they were doing before and add fresh wise-guru paint to their operation.
- candiddevmike 2y agoSSRIs are commonly prescribed for hoarding disorders.
- CatWChainsaw 2y agoYou think billionaires would let that come to market? hah.
- stefan_ 2y agoThey already got many many billions. If there's a mechanism for medicine to skip extra studies when extraordinary efficacy is shown, why is there no mechanism to skip the patent protection and crank out at scale what can prevent so many bad health outcomes in the future. Hell, give them another $10B, who even cares, it's saving much more in healthcare expenditures.