Patents enable control over who can manufacture and sell a technology.
Patents enable lucrative technology licensing.
Patents are correlated with VERY EXPENSIVE PHARMACEUTICAL TREATMENTS.
Patents enable control over profits.
Low-cost existing treatments are not very profitable.
Generic drugs can be manufactured by many companies and sold at a low profit-margin.
Big Pharma lacks motivation to create or market low-cost existing drugs.
Big Pharma's profit motivation is ANTI-PEOPLE and PRO-PROFIT
Drugs that CURE are not profitable.
Patented TREATMENTS (not cures) taken daily for life are VERY PROFITBLE.
This anon knows.
But do Norman / Norma know?
Do you tell them?
Would they benefit from learning moar?
Would they wake up?
Can you wake them?