Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The argument for pharma patents: making new medicines is expensive, and medicines are ...
The argument for pharma patents: making new medicines is expensive, and medicines are how we save ourselves from cancer and other diseases. Therefore, we award government-backed monopolies - #patents - to pharma companies as an incentive to invest their shareholders' capital in research.
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