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Re:Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit by kzrdude on Saturday April 07, 2018 @04:46PM (#16782858)
That's just human nature. We can say the same about programmers. They just want to fix the apparent problems, not write a better program.

Yes, if you read Hacker News you probably object. Not everyone does that. But making the problem just go away is the prevailing, widely spread, most commonly used mode of working.

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Re:Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit by aaronharder on Saturday April 07, 2018 @04:52PM (#16782891)
I would assume the best intentions for the vast majority of individuals working in the health system. But the economy of that system is one that favors treatment over cure/prevention. I'd like to believe that is a mistake of circumstance and not a design of human greed.
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Re:Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit by SAI_Peregrinus on Saturday April 07, 2018 @05:52PM (#16783216)
Not entirely. Whichever company comes up with a cure first will gain nearly 100% of the market, and can charge a TON to insurance companies for it. It cuts off long term profits, but investors reward quarterly growth primarily.
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Re:Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit by wolco on Saturday April 07, 2018 @09:35PM (#16784068)
Most developers want to rewrite every app they meet. What they write as usually sales driven features. The system is the problem not human nature.
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