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That's kind of the perverse incentive here, right? To recoup your costs, you need to sell as much as possible--but in doing so, you render your own product obs
by angersock 12y ago
That's kind of the perverse incentive here, right?
To recoup your costs, you need to sell as much as possible--but in doing so, you render your own product obsolete due to continuing counter-evolution by the target species.
- Fomite 12y agoWhich is why one of the suggestions for improving antibiotic development is to heavily subsidize it - working antibiotics are a public good, and if you remove the need to sell drugs in order to pay for their development, you remove the incentive to use them too widely.