Patenting medicine really shouldn't be a thing.
Quote from: DAS r00d d00d B00T on September 22, 2015, 02:47:14 PMPatenting medicine really shouldn't be a thing.
Quote from: DAS r00d d00d B00T on September 22, 2015, 02:47:14 PMPatenting medicine really shouldn't be a thing.It's supposed to be an incentive to innovate medicine. Whether it works or not? I have no idea.
Quote from: DAS r00d d00d B00T on September 22, 2015, 02:47:14 PMPatenting medicine really shouldn't be a thing.1. This has absolutely nothing to do with patents. 2. Yes it should, the whole idea of patents is to incentivise production in industries with high development costs.
Quote from: Prime Uta on September 22, 2015, 02:53:55 PMQuote from: DAS r00d d00d B00T on September 22, 2015, 02:47:14 PMPatenting medicine really shouldn't be a thing.It's supposed to be an incentive to innovate medicine. Whether it works or not? I have no idea.It doesn't.
Think of it less as creating incentive as it is preventing the destruction of incentive. Without patents competition could literally just steal the profits out from under you and you are left with the bill.
Quote from: Fuddy-duddy on September 22, 2015, 02:58:35 PMQuote from: Prime Uta on September 22, 2015, 02:53:55 PMQuote from: DAS r00d d00d B00T on September 22, 2015, 02:47:14 PMPatenting medicine really shouldn't be a thing.It's supposed to be an incentive to innovate medicine. Whether it works or not? I have no idea.It doesn't.You're doing that just to annoy me.
So why is his company the only one that can make this pill?
not fucking profits
Quote from: DAS r00d d00d B00T on September 22, 2015, 03:00:25 PMSo why is his company the only one that can make this pill?They have the manufacturing license.
Quote from: Fuddy-duddy on September 22, 2015, 03:02:25 PMnot fucking profitsThe two are not diametrically opposed.
Quote from: Meta as Fuck on September 22, 2015, 03:09:18 PMQuote from: DAS r00d d00d B00T on September 22, 2015, 03:00:25 PMSo why is his company the only one that can make this pill?They have the manufacturing license.Alright, break this shit down barney style, 'cause it's not something I know shit about.
Quote from: Meta as Fuck on September 22, 2015, 03:09:44 PMQuote from: Fuddy-duddy on September 22, 2015, 03:02:25 PMnot fucking profitsThe two are not diametrically opposed. they sure as shit ought to be
Quote from: eggsalad on September 22, 2015, 03:00:55 PMThink of it less as creating incentive as it is preventing the destruction of incentive. Without patents competition could literally just steal the profits out from under you and you are left with the bill.who gives a fuckthe priority should be saving people's lives with medicinenot fucking profits
maintain that you're different from those people
Sorry, the efficacy of the pharmaceutical industry isn't constrained by your irrational hatred of profits. If it works, who cares? When it doesn't, fix it. Profit is a morally neutral phenomenon.
That should be satisfactory enough.
Because we're cunts.
I don't think they're terribly different. It just seems that way because my ideas would require the system to be flipped over its head (as well as a change in how human beings conduct themselves), and your ideas are... Well, you might call them "realistic" or "feasible." I would call them something else.
Quote from: Sandtrap on September 22, 2015, 12:21:32 PMRemove money. Problem solved.I'm fairly confident you don't, in fact, believe it is really that simple.
Remove money. Problem solved.
There's no reason why it couldn't work.
Quote from: Sandtrap on September 22, 2015, 08:13:19 PMThere's no reason why it couldn't work.You mean, other than the fact the modern economy is based upon the scarcity of resources and money is useful for the functions of distribution and exchange?
Quote from: Meta as Fuck on September 22, 2015, 09:30:13 PMQuote from: Sandtrap on September 22, 2015, 08:13:19 PMThere's no reason why it couldn't work.You mean, other than the fact the modern economy is based upon the scarcity of resources and money is useful for the functions of distribution and exchange?No, other than the fact that people don't seem to remember that you literally don't need money to fucking accomplish anything. A system without money could still function on the fact that we do have limited resources.But that's the issue. Nobody would be intelligent or sensible about it.They're not even fucking intelligent or sensible about the current system in place. You honestly think that money has any hinderance on resource consumption? No. It's the opposite.
Quote from: Sandtrap on September 22, 2015, 10:00:59 PMQuote from: Meta as Fuck on September 22, 2015, 09:30:13 PMQuote from: Sandtrap on September 22, 2015, 08:13:19 PMThere's no reason why it couldn't work.You mean, other than the fact the modern economy is based upon the scarcity of resources and money is useful for the functions of distribution and exchange?No, other than the fact that people don't seem to remember that you literally don't need money to fucking accomplish anything. A system without money could still function on the fact that we do have limited resources.But that's the issue. Nobody would be intelligent or sensible about it.They're not even fucking intelligent or sensible about the current system in place. You honestly think that money has any hinderance on resource consumption? No. It's the opposite.The concept of money is a natural evolution of all economies, and it is an inevitability of any civilization.
people like this require the death penalty
