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So you're asserting that the reason your, and other, companies didn't do well is not that you couldn't live up to your promises but rather that there is a grand conspiracy to stop progress?

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>> grand conspiracy

Umm, I'm asserting like "Medicine is not perfect competition and thus prices are not competitive." If you want to think it is a "conspiracy" you can, but Economics offers great explanations for such setups. I think many of us in technology think all industries are driven by merit, cutting edge technology, margins, and competition.

In reality, not all industries are like this. This shouldnt be surprising. Computers go down in price. So do cloud service costs. So does RAM. But medicine stays expensive. "Conspiracy" is a shallow explanation -- it is just economics, it isnt perfectly competitive. And progress is hindered to maintain scarcity.


“Grand conspiracy” seems a bit uncharitable IMO. He’s just saying that the incentives aren’t aligned, which legitimately seems like an issue in this space.




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