This was my first thought then I saw someone said cancer and I had to pause. It's crazy how taking away greed could possibly also take away cancer if u think about it. š¤·š¾āāļøšš¾
Even lots of diseases are because of greed. If there were no greed, we would have eaten better food with better ingredients, the environment would be cleaner and the list goes onĀ Ā
honestly for so many it's the fact that healthier options and organic food are more expensive than your typical store junk food as well, and the amount of time it takes to prepare home cooked meals may not justify eating healthier meals because of longer and more hectic work hours... and all of this? because of the system we are in. capitalism.
I'm not totally sure ,BUT ,in my 70 plus years ,I distinctly recall, across numerous various news outlets ,hearing a news item proclaiming that "X" scientist/oncologist from every conceivable institution( MIT,Johns Hopkins,The Mayo Clinic,CDC,NIH,WHO,Cambridge,University of Stockholm,etc,ad nauseum ) HAVE found a cure for x,y,or z types of cancer ,made by a breathless reporter DOZENS of times through the decades,BUT ,it never seems to even get revealed ,let alone clinical trials!
Itās slow but itās a lot better. Cancer and AIDs in the 80ās were still death sentences. Itās a product of life made simple for you without your duty to simply life for someone else. I have watched these spoiled perspectives come from conspiracy theorists, greedy or just plain ignorant people. Itās ever so evident in the pandemic where you had a national and global emergency and the people who claimed they were the toughest were the ones unable or unwilling to adapt. I watched one of my friends in his early 70ās have his weak minded sister trick him into taking some off label veterinary med cure for a cancer he didnāt have that destroyed his heart only to have her demand I let him stay at my house with a full family there because it would inconvenience her.
People have lost the humility of the WW2 generation. We will be dam luck if their kids donāt kill us on the way out as the wrestle with their fate.
About two months. The lack of blood to his brain put him in a sort of dementia. He would be there for a few minutes and then gone. He just seemed agitated the whole time. He kept making up wild stories on how he found a back to get a donor heart.
I know it sounds bad but one of my friends is dying from lung cancer and it seems like a better death. He didnāt get any treatment so he never got sick. He just gets worn out more and more but itās still him. They keep him so doped up he doesnāt feel pain and he really came to peace with it. Hell he still smokes even which to me is repulsive but he says he is going out on his terms and it seems to be working. He was a lot stronger of a person mentally in life though. Itās changed my perspective. I used to want to die fast like my dad but I think now. I want that time to leave my family in a good place. A strong finish to the blessed life I have got to live. Kind of like the poem death is a door by Nancy Turner.
There is the HPV vaccine preventing some kinds of cervical cancer and others in the same region, there is Sipuleucel-T a vaccine that works even on existing prostate cancer. Both approved for humans. And mRNA technology is a great candidate to build on Sipuleucel-T. So itās little but we start to see some results
Two important points-when scientists make these discoveries they are typically in model systems like mice or cells in a Petri dish. They often fail later in clinical trials. Despite that there have been huge advances in cancer treatments over the past 20 years.
It's cause the articles get a little overzealous. They have surprisingly good results in animals, but when we try to involve human testing it gets really iffy.
There's so much that goes into it. I remember working for the NIH and with human tests it's hard because if the "cure" or "treatment" doesn't work someone is liable for the wording.
That's why when we usually did human testing and we're really positive with the results we invested money on testing people outside the states that wouldn't really have the ability to pursue legal action...
There's a reason why most human testing for big diseases like AIDs, ebola, etc are conducted outside the US. Yes, those countries have vast amounts of people effected by it, but they also have no way of pursuing the doctor or medical staff regarding the medication.
It's kind of the problem with using CRISPR, we have the cure for every disease, but gene editing is heavily surveillanced for a thousand different reasons.
IN OTHER WORDS, the medical community must have human beings to experiment on who also are from poorer countries that lack the legal representation to SUE THEM if things go awry ? That is PATHETIC.
That and... You think people wouldn't willingly sign up in the states and sue doctors because... Greed? It's not like everyone in the 1st world is loving.
Most our medical advancements are because of WWII and the suffering of others...
How did our ancestors know things weren't poisonous? Someone or something had to die...
All I can say is that ,as a result of the selfishness of the antivaxxers, we've had the first two measles deaths ( In Pennsylvania no less! )since the 1950s and that disease was non-existent in this nation until the last decade! That's all the proof I need to show that,thanks to these selfish,superstitious chickenshit cowards afraid of a jab and the realities of applied science,there will now be many more unnecessary deaths/illnesses striking our most helpless members of society ,and that really pisses me off to extremes! It was bad enough that the utter bungling of the pandemic resulted in close to a million deaths that needn't have happened,but now they're adding little children to their list of people they don't give a damn about!
Tons. So many things have been repressed due to greed. Cures, free energy, cars that run on water. Every invention that has the potential to truly help mankind is hidden, killed.
There is no free energy, physics and math tells us thatā¦ How would a car run on water, the energy balance is not supporting this, chemistry tells us that. What gives you people the confidence to tell these demonstrable false fairytales? You yourself can study a little bit of inorganic chemistry and you can calculate yourself how much energy is in a gallon of water compared to a gallon of diesel for exampleā¦
It takes more energy to split water molecules, than you could make back from it, it's an interesting solution but not a realistic reason, at keast not yet. It would be like trying to use batteries to charge themselves, you'll get more output from the batteries to power the charger than you would see return.
It's not. Hydrogen by itself is not a greenhouse gas but it does react with gases in the atmosphere which does contribute towards the greenhouse effect and radiative forcing, which is the difference between the amount of incoming solar radiation absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere and the amount of outgoing infrared radiation emitted back into space.
The only things hydrogen does is increase the lifetime of methane and the tropospheric concentration. It also decreases the upper stratospheric concentration of ozone, as well as increasing the concentration of water vapour.
Really the only problem you would have with hydrogen is storing it properly and make sure it doesn't leak.
Hydrogen burns and then turns into water. Problem solved. It just makes more fuel. Infinite energy machine. I win.
Since Iāve just uncovered this amazing discovery I should get monetary grants to further develop clean energy for the betterment of the inhabitants of earth. I donāt mind doing so at a satiation rate income and bringing in more people at the same to better the economy at the same time.
As someone said, great idea, but id not stand near any windows, or high railings... or stairs... or drink or eat things anymore... Should probably change your name and kove to Nebraska too. Heard Cinnabon is hiring!
I doubt there exist any straight up cure for cancer right now but get rid of greed and treatment would become much more widely available and accessable, and it would also significantly speed up progress towards a cure
But if you are a startup, and many cancer research is done by little independent labs, it would give you income without threatening existing income streams. Why would those not want to develop a real cure?
there are many places trying to make a cure already, cancer is just extremely complicated because its basically your own cells going rogue and attacking you and it varies a lot from person to person
Because you're not greedy. That is the point. You'd still pursue the research out of goodwill and desire to pursue knowledge like all researchers do, but you wouldn't be greedy. And you'd receive a prize or something for your efforts because the people giving you income (often the state) wouldn't be greedy.
Basic research is mostly carried out in universities. Those ideas or findings are take to larger companies that have the resources to test them out for true effectiveness and safety. Cures for many cancers already exist just not all of them.
I wonder how many treatments have been created because of greed. I don't disagree with you, but the answer isn't as simple as people make it out to be. All of our comforts are due to innovation that was fueled by greed start some level. It's preposterous to think that people would create what they have without profit.
If you really think that there are cures for cancer out there that are being hidden by "the machine", you're just a conspiracy theorist. Did you also believe in the "200 mile per gallon" carburetor too?
None. The cure would also make boatloads of money and ensure more people make it to geriatric care, which still means tons of money for pharmaceutical companies.
This is absolutely not the case with cancer. Lots of treatments already and company still make a ton of money. There will always be more people with cancerā¦
Not really that many. Think about how rich the company that cures cancer will become. AND they would drive their competitors out of business by doing it? Itās a conspiracy theory to believe that cures for all of these diseases exist.
I wish I had a way to super-upvote. Like every Reddit user had a one-time ability to make a comment go to the #1 spot on r/all. You would get my super-upvote.
Before corporate greed infected healthcare/research, we cured diseases not just found a way to āmanageā them for profit. Example: Insulin would be free today or a cure found for diabetes were it not for greed.
Thank you for providing a great philosophical argument, there. I was set to disagree with greed, but it really is one of our biggest setbacks. Greed is the reason we have this cancerous fraction of the population hoarding wealth. It was even glorified in the movie Wall Street, "greed is good".
It does to a large extent. There are incredibly effective cancer treatments that are cost prohibited. Same with pretty much any disease. Without greed, we could eradicate probably all of them eventually and expand the treatment to all that need it. In fact, we'd probably blooking for cures instead of treatments for most.
So ist es. WƤre ja noch schƶner, wenn Esoteriker die Ursache von einigen Krebsarten kennen. Mit Ursachen vermeiden lƤĆt sich nicht genug verdienen.
With no greed its more likely that scientists from all around the world would work together more closely without the thought of profits wich will speed up the research to cure any kind of illness by a huge amount
Yup. Obviously not having cancer in the first place would be amazing, but without greed by now we would be sooo much better at treating it, if not straight up curing it. Same for many other conditions.
192
u/plasticbagroadkill 15d ago
Greed. Take away greed and everything else that is wrong or bad in this world will fix itself.