[miley_cyrus]

How about we dictate a price on whatever industry you happen to be in? Maybe your product cost billions of dollars to develop, but how about we force you to sell it to everyone for peanuts?

There is no logical reason that pharma should be on the receiving end of all this hate. Especially considering that their job is literally to save lives.

[toomuchtodo]

> How about we dictate a price on whatever industry you happen to be in? Maybe your product cost billions of dollars to develop, but how about we force you to sell it to everyone for peanuts?

If I work in an industry where human life depends on it, yes! I entirely agree. This is not a market to corner, regardless of your innovation and how clever you are.

> Especially considering that their job is literally to save lives.

Positive contributions must not lead to “these people can hold those who have medical needs economically hostage.” Don’t like the deal, get out of pharma and let other people (operating under a different ideology on the topic) build.

https://time.com/6257866/big-pharma-patent-abuse-drug-pricin...

> Today, 1 in 4 Americans cannot afford to take their medications as prescribed. Too many seniors are having to ration their treatments to get by until their next social security check arrives. And contrary to what industry lobbyists argue, soaring drug prices are not the inevitable result of research and development costs to bring breakthrough drugs to market. It’s time to put this widely debunked excuse to bed.

https://www.i-mak.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Overpatente...

[BurningFrog]

The point is that if pharmaceutical research is made unprofitable, that doesn't mean "other people" will do it.

It means no one will do that work.

[hackeraccount]

If I don't have a house I can't live.

If I don't have food I can't live.

There are any number of industries that people need to live. You really want Donald Trump (or someone just as crazy) dictating what the prices are for those industries?

[mistrial9]

There is no logical reason that pharma should be on the receiving end of all this .. "windfall profit" ..

Especially considering that their job is literally .. "preserved by natural monopoly and law, forever"