The world is moving to subscription based business models from ownership based models.
- Buying house -> Renting one
- Buying MS Office -> Annual subscription (software-as-as-service)
- Buying cars for running a taxi service -> Using someone else's car for a fee (Uber)
- Buying seeds -> Pay royalty to Monsanto for seed use (seeds are slightly genetically modified from naturally occurring ones, so they can claim to be engineered and therefore patented. If you then somehow make all natural varieties extinct and you own the only remaining species).
- Building a motel/hotel -> Using someone's else house or hotel for a fee
So why not Big Pharma too?
Someone on this site said it once: immunity-as-a-service model for COVID-19 vaccines. Pay your annual fee to upgrade your immunity to the latest threats out there (like the antivirus on your computer).
Think about how much money you make from treating patients indefinitely vs curing them in one shot? Why would you ever release a cure? You'd try to stop any information about non-patentable remedies
The world is moving to subscription based business models from ownership based models.
- Buying house -> Renting one
- Buying MS Office -> Annual subscription (software-as-as-service)
- Buying cars for running a taxi service -> Using someone else's car for a fee (Uber)
- Buying seeds -> Pay royalty to Monsanto for seed use (seeds are slightly genetically modified from naturally occurring ones, so they can claim to be engineered and therefore patented. If you then somehow make all natural varieties extinct and you own the only remaining species).
- Building a motel/hotel -> Using someone's else house or hotel for a fee
So why not Big Pharma too?
Someone on this site said it once: immunity-as-a-service model for COVID-19 vaccines. Pay your annual fee to upgrade your immunity to the latest threats out there.
Think about how much money you make from treating patients indefinitely vs curing them in one shot? Why would you ever release a cure? You'd try to stop any information about non-patentable remedies