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[deleted] t1_itcdmx8 wrote

It’s because capitalism drives them. Rather investments in them. This is how we get boner pills and baldness treatments and insulin is thousands a month. Tech and science are slaves to the dollar.

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Plzbanmebrony t1_itct4j4 wrote

Which is where the government should step in and pay for said research and development.

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[deleted] t1_itctld5 wrote

Agreed. Used to. The public university system and extended research labs did the work and it was public domain right? That system was systematically killed off in large part to privatize it, by the two parties who control our government policies. Watch the changes over the last 40 years or so.

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857477457 t1_item6hy wrote

  1. Erectile dysfunction shouldn't be a joke.

  2. Insulin is expensive because of how insurance works in the US, not because more money was spent on baldness.

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[deleted] t1_itf1kca wrote

What I’m trying to point out is the vast majority of the science and tech are focused on what can make money more that what can we do to fix x.

The company who sells insulin raised the prices to maximize profit. Insurance industry had nothing to do with their choice to raise the price. Proper regulatory control would not allow this.

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