Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons...
by graphe on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @09:37AM
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Society is not my personal piggybank for help. Being born with a health condition already makes it an unjust world. Being entitled to other people's work by your own metric of payment is also unjust.
In a just world - not the one we live in - medicine would be produced like every other bulk molecule, because that's really what it is. Insulin could cost ~ what you pay for some other complex chemical. But because of patents and various graft protecting industry practices depending on where you live you may be overpaying by many orders of magnitude for something that could be quite cheap.