> but actual market decisions that drives such profits is the real source of truth. Right. Cue up the 2008 financial crisis. > may be it isn't profitable enou

> but actual market decisions that drives such profits is the real source of truth. Right. Cue up the 2008 financial crisis. > may be it isn't profitable enough because the other problems they chose to focus on is more "important" in the eyes of society. Back to my original comment that this is a self-correcting problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6771657 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6771657 But I doubt that society at large evaluated that certain things (that are currently very profitable) are more valuable than avoiding the situation of running out of effective antibiotics. I posit that there's so much information overload, this problem is simply overlooked by the masses (due to human nature) until it's too late.