Comment by photochemsyn
11 hours ago
The quintessential counterexample to your claim that the goal of capitalism is linked to improving the public good. I think we can agree that curing disease is a ‘public good’, compared to disease maintenance in which the patient must buy a drug once a month for the rest of their life just to keep the disease in check, yes? While also potentially remaining as an infectious source of disease? But what if curing a disease eliminates demand for maintenance drugs, harming capitalist returns?
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patie...
You're not reading what I'm writing. Capitalism isn't there to serve capitalists so citing what a capitalist wants and saying it's a flaw with capitalism doesn't make sense.
Capitalism is all about providing the right incentives to capitalists so that what's good for them is good for everyone.
> ‘Is curing patients a sustainable business model?’
The goal of capitalism is to make the answer to that question "Yes".