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Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by karpierz on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:30PM (#31747315)
> For anyone who thinks this wealth shouldn't appear, let me ask this: if someone could discover a cure for all cancers — how much should they be allowed to earn for it?

Say 50 million?

> I.E. What price would you put on the cure for all cancers?

100 billion?

You've asked two separate questions there, but you're implying that the answer to one is the same as the other.

Just because you are capable of extracting a certain amount of wealth in exchange for something, does not mean that you should be able to.

Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by __pache__ on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @08:00PM (#31747572)
So if I make a pill that cures cancer, _it_ is worth 100bn, but I am only worth 50m?

how does that make any sense?

Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by 3np on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @09:08PM (#31747993)
It can makes sense if you take the position that medicine patents should be heavily reformed.

Shoulders and giants - there's no way you actually fully independently discover a cancer-curing pill. And even if you did, its existence would not and should not belong fully to you.

Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by __pache__ on Saturday June 18, 2022 @08:40PM (#31795112)
that still doesn't make sense. if I make $50bn I am worth a significant amount of that, if not most of it.

> its existence would not and should not belong fully to you

...if I didn't make it, it doesn't exist, so it fully belongs to me ..................