Comment by habinero

I'm sorry, but if you _actually_ think about it, your whole premise is ridiculous.

We'll put aside the obvious fact that drug researchers are, you know, people who presumably got into the industry to help people, which includes themselves and their families.

We'll also put aside the fact that drugs go out of patent relatively quickly, and they'd just lose out to generics. Like they do now.

The simple truth is they don't need to manufacture more clients, because a stream already exists. There are always new people developing new diseases and new issues. There's an incentive to come up with new and better tools to pull money away from generics.

Don't fall prey to paranoid thinking, actually think about it.