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As long as it makes me a trillionaire, I don't give a fuck who buys it.



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A.
Then use the money to help make the drug more affordable and fund charities to allow the poor to get the cure and also fund research for curing other horrible diseases (capitalism FTW!)



B.

I can't really see myself making money out of peoples misery, even if it would make me and my potential kids financially secure.



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10 euro for each cured patient already will make you rich so i'd go for C. be fucking rich and be a nice ass who offers the cure relatively cheap.



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kirby007 said:
10 euro for each cured patient already will make you rich so i'd go for C. be fucking rich and be a nice ass who offers the cure relatively cheap.

this, but i would charge 20 euro

 



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Tough call. With choice A you get tons of money which is great. But with company b you are seen as a hero and very generous.

I'd go choice B because I'd probably get invited to every talkshow in the world plus a book deal on "how i cured cancer" and get rich through that.



I would let people suffer. I hate everyone. If I could work my will I would annihilate this planet and everyone on it including myself. Only this morning in a cafe I was looking round at the customers and thinking, die, die now you smug bastards.



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I would pick A as the people would still get cured thanks to insurance companies and I'll be compensated for my knowledge and hard work.

Now, in reality I would force a more reasonable solution that is not so black and white as you have asked.

Company C would make a healthy profit where I would see marginal royalties, but it is not a ass raping price. Maybe at most a 20% markup on real costs where I get 7%.



Well since there was no cost in researching and developing the thing, I won't be losing anything if I chose option B.

But if this is an analogy to the debate about medicine and health care, then I think it's a bad one =/



Akvod said:
Well since there was no cost in researching and developing the thing, I won't be losing anything if I chose option B.

But if this is an analogy to the debate about medicine and health care, then I think it's a bad one =/

 

No it's not. It's just what you would feel you should do in that situation, it's more about morals and ethics than anything else.