It lacks balances to prevent abuse

i never 'trust' a company

As evident by Dysney just cockblocking everything for no fucking reason

I tend to agree, Uksio, but you have to remember there is still scarcity in the market, as with any other, and you'll end with shortages, if you intervene in a manner circumventing profit incentives and so on.

i expect a company to be an asshole if it can get away with it

Yup

make the rules so they can't

Nature of people is greed

So, if you do that, you'll harm innovation.

In the long term, more people then die as a result.

The issue is any law that stops bad people could also stop the good ones

You don't need to interveine

Just introduce checks and balances

So it’s a win lose

Pretty sure path of least resistance triumphs greed

the current system with drugs operates on a 7 yr timeline. u have 7 yrs to make a profit but 4 of those yrs are consumed turning the formula into a pill and getiing fda approval

Like, say a progressive tax of the *number* of re-sells of your stock will put a damper on stock manipulation without changing the market

We could also use other colloquial phrases to pretend we're having a conversation

with only 3 yrs to recoup and make a profit, the companies are incentived to do shady dealing with doctors

Right, which also inflates the costs for consumers, @ManAnimal.

yup

Which creates artificial shortages.

You can always find a dis-/incentivising factor and balance things

not with eveything though

You can't regulate death, sure

Or water damage

pharma is good example cause it illustrates the nessecity to be able to seperate spheres of concern

Water does whatever it pleases, do not fucking argue with water

Ye bad idea

Lower the regulatory burdens for approval and so forth, but the problem isn't merely the 7-year timeline, as there's a loophole in which the patent can be indefinitely renewed, @ManAnimal.

if you cannot, then incentives will actually have the opposite effect

Water is as hard as concrete and will drown your ass

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this is also true

regulations can turn out to be worse than initial status quo

Fuckups happen

but then without that incentive, fewer drugs will be developed

Pros and cons.

Not a reason to not try to have a revision for a better system

because it just won't be worth the capital investiment up front

*Quotes Mussolini*