[extropy-chat] The Hidden Luddite was Re: peak oil debate

[Gary Miller]

Actually a vaccine that prevents the disease in the first place would be the
bigger money maker and result in the least risk of the disease continuing
it's spread.

In that way you don't limit your customers to those who already have the
disease but rather a much larger group of the general population that would
have reason to fear accidently contracting the disease.

More importantly the larger potential earnings serves as a larger financial
incentive to the drug companies to perform research.

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Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] The Hidden Luddite was Re: peak oil debate

On 9/7/05, Lifespan Pharma Inc. wrote:
>   
>  Similar with some disease drug development, you want to treat the 
> disease so it does not kill but your efforts to  simply give a one 
> time treatment that forever cures and eliminates the long term market 
> for a treatment that  curbs but does not quickly cure has market 
> disincentives built in.
> Investors won't spend 300 million to for example  cure diabetes with a 
> one time treatment when a drug that emeliorates 90% of the damage 
> without reversing  the disease is a wonderful investment.
>  
>  Wish human nature was more ethical but I really think money takes 
> precedant over ethics in the marketplace which  by its basic nature is 
> sociopathic and not socialistic.
> 


Hang on a minute! 
Are you and Adrian saying that businesses really do decide to harm people so
they can make a profit??

I thought this was the Libertarian market supporters club here.  ;)

We'd better put a stop to this free market nonsense then! :)

BillK
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