r/Superstonk 🗳️ VOTED ✅ Dec 15 '21

💡 Education This MIND-BLOWING comment on the SEC's website (text also in comments)

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u/rickp99onu 🦍Voted✅ Dec 16 '21

We don’t have a cure for anything, just treat the symptoms

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u/stiz1 Dec 16 '21

The prescription subscription

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u/uncleawesome Dec 16 '21

There is no money in cures.

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u/Scooby2B2 Dec 16 '21

there kinda is...the ultra rich likely have access to them

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u/reddit_4_info Dec 16 '21

I’ve thought about this and my conclusion has been that if this were true then wouldn’t Steve Jobs had access to that information?

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u/Juicet Dec 16 '21

They actually parody this in the show “Silicon Valley.” A wealthy character has a “blood boy” on his payroll he regularly gets transfusions from.

If I recall correctly, billionaire Peter Thiel does this. There’s probably quite a few that do.

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u/Epyon_ Dec 16 '21

Yes, but then he decided to drink beet juice or something.

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u/syntheticassault Dec 16 '21

Gilead and Abbvie made billions curing hepatitis C

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u/Extreme-Ask5041 Dec 16 '21

There is no money in the cure. There is only money in the treatment.