Would you rather be known as the second Jonas Salk or the second Pablo Escobar?

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

Can't I be both? Find the cure for something and sell it for billions?

Then you just get to be remembered as being like this guy:

[TrumpIsPresident]

Escobar was the biggest philanthropist his people had ever known. It's why it took so long to find and kill him. People in Columbia both loved and hated him

He might have been "loved" by the people in one section of one city in Columbia because he built them things with his blood money.

To the rest of the nation, and the entire continent, he was a cancerous plague.

The consequences of actions still ruin hundreds of thousands of lives every year.

Who cares if a few ghetto dwellers in some shithole 3rd world city "loved" him?

People loved Hitler too.

[Sunseeker]

Then you just get to be remembered as being like this guy:

True, but I wouldn't be a mass murderer and I wouldn't be a broke dick.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

True, but I wouldn't be a mass murderer and I wouldn't be a broke dick.

I'd just sell the cure for enough money to keep myself comfortable and then make my real money doing the talk show circuit, endorsement deals, and public speaking fees.

[PACOX]

Help humanity and live your life or die broke and alone? Hard choice to make for sure.

Wait, which one is which

[daenerys]

Unfortunately, even if you only charge enough for any given drug to recover R&D costs, people will still think you're exploiting them for a profit. The only way to find cures for rare diseases that have a few thousand possible buyers is to jack up the prices of more common drugs so the bulk of the profits are put back into R&D to research the more rare deadly diseases since those likely won't yield any kind of real revenue.

What's sad is when you find out that the typical big pharmaceutical company spends on average twice as much money on advertising than on R&D. It's better for them to spend crap loads of money convincing people they need drugs on tv that people don't really need, or bribing doctors to push their drugs onto as many customers as possible. If the drug companies stop trying to push their drugs on people that didn't need it, and instead put that money into more R&D, just imagine the new miracle cures they could develop.

[Stop Pretending]

You should try harder to spell things correctly. Anyway Escobar for sure.

Huh? What did I mispell?

[May90]

Hmm, Escobar... I think, even if it was Hitler vs Escobar, I would take my time to think.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Then you just get to be remembered as being like this guy:

Except that Mr Leechy McSmugface didn't even come up with a solution to a problem himself. He bought it off somebody else, and then jacked up the price 600+%.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

Except that Mr Leechy McSmugface didn't even come up with a solution to a problem himself. He bought it off somebody else, and then jacked up the price 600+%.

Doesn't really matter to the common people whether or not the guy who jacked up the price actually discovered the solution or not though...all that matters is that the price was jacked up.

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Huh? What did I mispell?

Not that I want to get involved in a grammar war...but you used "to" when you should have used "too"

[RaoBurning]

Salk, because pissing off anti-vaxxers with more/better vaccines would just put a smile on my face for a lifetime.

[Adam Jensen]

Pablo Escobar because vaccines cause autisms in children.

[Deleted]

Pablo Escobar for sure.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Pablo Escobar because vaccines cause autisms in children.

I dunno, I'd imagine the side effects of having crack addicted parents would be worse than a fictitious and erroneous belief that kids become autistic from vaccines.

[TirielWoW]

I think polio might have been eradicated.

Unfortunately, Polio is endemic in certain parts of the world, so it's not currently possible to eradicate it fully in the same way that we were able to eradicate Smallpox.

[Adam Jensen]

I dunno, I'd imagine the side effects of having crack addicted parents would be worse than a fictitious and erroneous belief that kids become autistic from vaccines.

I think it's pretty clear that being addicted to crack is, like polio and small pox, far worse than the fictional chance of getting autism from vaccines. I got this information from a discredited doctor and a blond bombshell, so it must be true.