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Honestly drug bounties seems so much better than patents across the board. Patents are better when you're inventing the market too, but even then are no panacea as it may take a long time to build the market after the initial invention, eating into the patterns lifespan. True innovative is often bewildered.

Here not only is the market clear cut, but this benefits new entrents as the immediate windfall allows for more risk-taking. It's liquidity for innovation.

Finally, the costs for patients / emergencies can be dirt-cheap, which is good because just as one should have insurance to cover future emergencies, so should society budge the R&D up-front.



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