• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    22 hours ago

    No, your healthcare is tied to your job, so you can’t miss work. If you’re sick, you can’t risk losing your job.

    But yeah, on a smaller scale, disease is profitable. I’m not saying “they don’t cure cancer because it’s more profitable to treat” (cancer is a group of diseases with no magic bullet), but it’s significantly less effort to sell nyquil than to produce an actual pharmaceutical cure for the common cold.