• Jessica
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      -418 months ago

      Yeah, well, their R&D budget for this medicine cost something crazy like $3.5 trillion dollars, so it makes sense that they have to charge 200x the cost to make it.

      • @eskimofry@lemm.ee
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        88 months ago

        I am willing to bet they took government money to fund this. So I don’t really accept the argument that they need to price it that much to make profits. How much more profits is the only thin remaining to determine and I don’t have a lot of sympathy for sociopaths who claim they need so much.

      • @taanegl@lemmy.world
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        88 months ago

        Wow, that would make the company bankrupt now. They owe HOW much?!?! Why haven’t they alone tanked the economy? Geez.

        • Jessica
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          -98 months ago

          That’s what I’m saying! How is it they are able to stay afloat???

            • @Synnr@sopuli.xyz
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              38 months ago

              It’s a peptide lol. A bond of amino acids. That’s why Chinese suppliers sell it for $5-10/vial in bulk and still make a shitload of money.

              Much wow, big pharma did drug AI a little sooner than the rest of them.

              Id development of these drugs costs as much as our GDP, they’re doing things seriously fucking wrong.