You are a scientist who discovered a cure for cancer BUT the drug is very expensive to manufacture so your institute only has enough funding to make enough of the drug to save about 1/100 of the people in your country that die of cancer.
The question is how do you decide who gets the drug and who does not?
Do you give it out for free, perhaps like a lottery?
I suppose assuming there is absolutely no way of affording to save more people, perhaps the best way to go about it would be to save the younger sufferers of cancer first- thus your intervention has a larger positive impact on the person as it extends their life by the most. Could you really let a child die of cancer for the sake of someone who is already 80? I mean, it's sad to let anyone die of course but I feel this would be making best of the bad situation.
Begin mass production immediately. Sell for cheap. Allow people who buy it and are laughed at by people who refuse to buy it bombard the houses belong to the latter group with eggs, also sold for cheap by me. Become rich. Use money to invest in self-sufficient power generators. BECOME THE GREATEST [BLEEP]ER WHO EVER LIVED. Later, try to create life extender machine, research into magic, then start royally screwing over every universe that I can think of with cheap cancer cures and eggs. Magical eggs.
How about I don't apply for a patent and make the formula available for free? It's medicine, nobody should be denied the ability to use it.
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Wait for it...wait for it...spend some money on making it more cheaper to make.
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First, eliminate self-caused cancers from the list. You smoke and have a lung cancer? Too bad, you caused it to yourself. If there's anything else like that, same for them. After that, probably random people just to be fair. In theory I'd probably like to eliminate alcoholists, drug-users, criminals, etc. from the list of possible recipients but I suppose it would be pretty damn hard to do reliably.
"You smoked, so it's your own fault you have cancer."
"But you can cure cancer."
"I'm not going to cure your cancer. Smoking's bad for you."
"Why?"
"Because it gives you cancer."
"But you can cure cancer."
I don't know why I found this so funny. Maybe it's because it's so friggin' late and I haven't had much sleep this entire week. But anyways, I seem to be unable to stop laughing. I seriously should get some rest, as my brain is starting to slip into silly-think mode.
The question is how do you decide who gets the drug and who does not? Simple, the poor who have struggled all of their life even though they worked 14 hours each day would be given all of it. However, the rich and middle class would probably be able to fund your company and buy it
Do you give it out for free, perhaps like a lottery? No
Do you make it available only by buying it? For the rich, yes
Or do you use a different method of deciding? See question one
I'm assuming the situation is as described and there's nothing I can do about it, because doing something about it really increases the complexity of the situation more than necessary.
First, eliminate self-caused cancers from the list. You smoke and have a lung cancer? Too bad, you caused it to yourself. If there's anything else like that, same for them. After that, probably random people just to be fair. In theory I'd probably like to eliminate alcoholists, drug-users, criminals, etc. from the list of possible recipients but I suppose it would be pretty damn hard to do reliably.
You realize that you're sounding a hell of a lot worse than most of what you listed, right
My criteria for handing out/selling the cancer medicine is a mixture of:
1. Type of cancer (Breast cancer and similar take precedence)
2. Age (People aged 18-25 take precedence because of the time still left in their life, and the younger patients may not react well to the medicine)
3. Socio-economic status (I'd say that the middle class take it first, then the poor, and then the rich.)
4. Tolerance to medicine (It's easier to give a medicine to those without allergies etc.)
Then after selling about 50 or so, wait for the patients to be cured, then compile a government funding application, with these testimonials to make it more convincing, then if and when approved, release for mass production.
Do some more research to find less expensive methods of producing the drug.
Cooperate with other medical research companies.
Do not file any copyright or patent.
You are a scientist who discovered a cure for cancer BUT the drug is very expensive to manufacture so your institute only has enough funding to make enough of the drug to save about 1/100 of the people in your country that die of cancer.
The question is how do you decide who gets the drug and who does not?
Do you give it out for free, perhaps like a lottery?
Do you make it available only by buying it?
Or do you use a different method of deciding?
Wait for time
In the break of new dawn
We will never meet
Either get funded by the government or combine with other institutes.
GODDAMN IT
STUPID GENDERFLIP VIRUS
Yeh. Just show how your drug cures cancer and you'll be swimming in more money than you'll ever need.
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2) publish formula
3) ???
4) cure everyone
Apply for government funding.
Sell it as cheaply as possible while still making enough profit to stay afloat.
Everybody wants to be the person who helped cure cancer. Major reelection potential.
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"You smoked, so it's your own fault you have cancer."
"But you can cure cancer."
"I'm not going to cure your cancer. Smoking's bad for you."
"Why?"
"Because it gives you cancer."
"But you can cure cancer."
I don't know why I found this so funny. Maybe it's because it's so friggin' late and I haven't had much sleep this entire week. But anyways, I seem to be unable to stop laughing. I seriously should get some rest, as my brain is starting to slip into silly-think mode.
Just thought you should know.
1. Type of cancer (Breast cancer and similar take precedence)
2. Age (People aged 18-25 take precedence because of the time still left in their life, and the younger patients may not react well to the medicine)
3. Socio-economic status (I'd say that the middle class take it first, then the poor, and then the rich.)
4. Tolerance to medicine (It's easier to give a medicine to those without allergies etc.)
Then after selling about 50 or so, wait for the patients to be cured, then compile a government funding application, with these testimonials to make it more convincing, then if and when approved, release for mass production.
Cooperate with other medical research companies.
Do not file any copyright or patent.