Paradox on Nostr: The argument that problem fixers artificially do a subpar job to keep the problem a ...
The argument that problem fixers artificially do a subpar job to keep the problem a thing for job security only works if the problem is easy to solve.
Creating a bounty for animals is one, because eventually you run out of the animal, so people will breed them to keep raking in money.
Others, like cancer, are not. If we could cure cancer, powerful people would not get cancer. Some people think chemo is kept exorbitantly expensive so that we don't run out of people with cancer, but that's just dumb. They're kept expensive for other bad reasons, but that's not one of them.
Creating a bounty for animals is one, because eventually you run out of the animal, so people will breed them to keep raking in money.
Others, like cancer, are not. If we could cure cancer, powerful people would not get cancer. Some people think chemo is kept exorbitantly expensive so that we don't run out of people with cancer, but that's just dumb. They're kept expensive for other bad reasons, but that's not one of them.