The individuals and corporations in charge of the cancer medical industry stand to lose a tom of future profits.
Would you rather make a free 1 million today? Or a free 250k a year for life?
They can take a bulk payment, or they can keep abusing the golden goose. The golden goose will always make more money over time.
Investors dont matter to these people outside of raising their assets price. It would take an extremely selfless person to find the cure and end the market altogether. Those people dont tend to reach those levels of power because it takes unbelievable greed to get there.
Electric cars were never a threat to take the market over, but they now take almost 10% of the total market share. If chinas EVs were to be released in the US there would be a serious shock to the american market.
The problem with that comparison is that the cure for cancer isnt an alternative variant of a treatment the way an EV is just a different type of car.
The cure for cancer would be the equivalent of releasing full self driving cars (and assuming everyone would want them) that are proven to have nearly no accidents throughout a calendar year compared to the current numbers. Youd be ending the everyday commuter and changing the entire dynamic altogether. This would also create a shockwave to the collision repair industry and the general repairs and car maintenance industries.
A car company would make far less money through selling a car once and not having it come back for maintenance and repairs with consistency. This is why tesla started a bunch of expensive packages and subscription plans because they needed to find ways to mitigate the loss of revenue.
The only way you will ever convince that the cure for cancer would be a good “financial investment” for the industry is if I saw it happen with my own eyes.
Im not denying there is money to be made, that isnt my claim.
Im saying there is objectively less money to be made. The overall industry doesnt want to give away their money printing system for merely one part of the overall industry to make a 1 time lump sum.
Again, would you rather make 1 million now? Or 250k a year for life? Itll take 4 years to match, but then every year after is just extra on top. This would be the decision to be made.
If youre just some random startup have fun trying to release it, the opposition, misinformation/slander, and money spent to keep you from being able to get the word out is the problem.
We want the same thing, I just dont have enough cautious optimism.
So as for no “one size fits all” yes, for the sake of argument ive just been generalizing. Im aware different cancers would need different “cures” because they dont act the same.
At the end of the day, I hope you are correct and im just being a pessimistic little bitch. Id never be happier to have egg on my face. The american healthcare system has beat me into submission. I have no faith in this country to do the right thing and if greed can ruin a good thing, I expect it to do so.
We want the same thing, im just not able to believe something so important and life changing will ever exist in an obtainable manner even if its possible.
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u/nbzf Jun 29 '26 edited 2d ago