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I don't wish cancer on anyone but I also kind of wish it on all the billionaires in the hope that they'd use their unfathomable amounts of wealth and power to "solve" this horrible disease.
Make a new Manhattan project of it. Get all the researchers together, throw money and resources on them until they find a cure for it. Fast!
And you imagine they'd just give the cure (whatever form that may be) away for free? That's not what billionairs are known for! Can you imagine the calamity that such power would cause? People getting a personalized quote for ~~curing~~ managing their cancer, which will definitely include an "affordable" monthly payment. There is an applicable recent Black Mirror episode giving you an idea of a similar scenario.
No, if there is ever such an endevour, I sincerly hope it will be funded by public money and there may no patents come forth of the research or cure.
Yeah we'd just get dynasties of an immortal ownership class. Yeesh. :(
I'd be all for it but I'm actually not sure how much the public would like to spend on this topic with lots of other things to take care of too.
Billionaires on the other hand just collect wealth and don't have to think about the public opinion. They could even market it as philanthropy.
I'm aware that they might want to keep a lid on it but that's still better than no cure at all.
I'm sure there are rich people who still have a conscience and may even act on it. The proposed idea (public funding for such research) is just meant to sidestep the morally bankrupts, who -despite being a minority- can still screw it up for everyone. Like the orange baboon and his slavish entourage.
Curing cancer would be the equivalent of the Manhattan project, the moon landing, the mapping of the human genome and the making it relatively affordabl, e the discovery of both antibiotics and phage therapy, and the development and mass deployment of vaccines. It is an achievement demonstrating such wild dominance over the struggles and complexity of the physical world that I think its only comparisons would be to something like establishment of terraformed nations on Mars.
Right now we're still developing cures for the easy cancers. Attempting to cure cancers is big business in both the pharmaceutical world and in nonprofits, and it is working, but it's slow. Unfortunately cancers are made of our own cells so even things like curing bacterial disease don't even really express the difficulty. But it's happening, and general treatments and prognoses continue to improve as well as increasing numbers of cures for specific cancers in people with certain gene presentations.
Sorry about the rant, my mom died of cancer nearly a decade ago and I'm annoyed to no end by people acting like big pharma is intentionally not curing cancer to make more money, when the reality is what I said above.
I didn't anything about big pharma and intentionally not curing it. What I'm saying it's concentrate the efforts and throw more money on it, especially the money of billionaires.
I'm following cancer research pretty closely since a lot of family members died to it (different types of cancer), my father has it and I have a precancerous condition. I know there's progress and effort. I just wish for it to accelerate and I sincerely believe that billionaires could do that.
Sorry I wound up on a rant combining what I meant to say to you with what I feel the need to say to some other people. Your comment was next to one such person in the thread
He had other plans for his money
You mean steal research from other countries under a cooperation agreement and then refuse to share?
Yeah, but then only rich people will get the cure.
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The multi billion dollar pharmaceutical industry and health insurance industry would fight ruthlessly against what you're proposing, which we could absolutely do and probably fast.
There's way more money in treating symptoms long term. Curing cancer is bad for business.
Same with the recent push for ozempic and stuff like that. Actually curing eating disorders through CBT works, but it's not as profitable as selling someone diabetes meds for the rest of their life.
actually ozempic also helps with addiction drugs and alcohol., i think thats the real reason they want it gone
It's not really about profit, it's about a quick fix. Therapy appointments are a hell of a lot easier to manufacture and distribute than drugs. But people would rather just take a pill to cure what ails them.
Cuba has a cure for Alzheimer’s and we keep it contained there.
Hmmm. Hmmmmmm.
Hmm, I wonder why people like you never complain about the 'wellness' industry (homeopathic influencers, scam medicine pushers.. etc) which is 5 times bigger than the the entire pharmaceutical industry...
It's OK gramps, let's get you back to bed.
Clearly you haven't experienced the US "healthcare" system.
Fortunately no.
Then you have no clue how much of a hellscape it can be. Save your insults for those who deserve it, not those who are suffering.