4mo ago

Capitalism prioritises investment based on profit, not based on good

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Or, chronic diseases which have been effectively cured aren't considered chronic diseases anymore?
- Stop with your logic on the Internet!
  And yes, the vast majority of the apparatus that is capitalism is evil, before anyone wants to think I'm simping for it.
  Hell, most chronic disease cures are done by the evil and completely untrustworthy propaganda machine that is the government.
- Yeah, we've cured a ton of previously chronic diseases. I don't know what planet these people live on. We've even effectively cured certain cancers in our lifetimes, and more will come. It's also just much harder to cure something than treat something.
  
  I'm really struggling to think of any, most coming to mind are bacterial or viral, though I'm certain there are thousands of chronic human pathologies we've cured, some we probably don't even remember curing because the terminology is so outdated (though sadly dropsy is still a thing, and frustratingly consumption isn't eradicated yet ....but it could be!)
  Can you give me a starting point if you've got one on your tongue? I'd like to journey down the Wikipedia rabbit hole tonight!
  
  hidradenitis suppurativa
  edit: i read wrong, that's uncured, i could imagine that along with what you mentioned, a lot are likely nutrition-based, treatments have gotten better for a lot of things, outlooks and lifespans for certain genetic conditions, but off the top of my head i can't think of anything that has a "cure" that's not viral or environmental
  
  There's surgical interventions that cure a lot of things, like certain kinds of blindness, or pretty much anything that requires a transplant.
  With two prospective diabetes cures moving towards human trials, I hope there will be a more compelling answer in 10 years or so, but that's TBD.
  
  Myopia (shortsightedness) is a fairly big one.
  The cure's been so ingrained that the anti-medicine/eugenics people don't think about their own glasses when posting.
  You can just go get your eyes tested, some glasses fitted, and you're done. Repeat if it gets worse.
  If you want something more permanent, you can get someone to slice open your eye, blast it a bit with a laser, and in theory, you would be completely cured, as if you never needed glasses.
  
  Lasik is a great example, thank you!
  Though I wouldn't put glasses in the same category because it's not a cure, it's a medical device to correct the medical issue and it requires you to use the device for the rest of your life, if you stop using the device your symptoms immediately return, that's not a cure. Glasses are the equivalent of insulin for diabetes. It's treatment, not cure, without it, the disease takes full effect, but with it, yes you will be functionally cured as long as you have your glasses/insulin available, but even when functionally cured, you will always be a person with low vision/diabetes and always need ongoing treatment....until there's a "cure".
  If my poor vision was cured by getting glasses I wouldn't be squinting while I'm typing this in size 18 font (my glasses are in the other room and I'm too lazy to get them), and I wouldn't suddenly be completely disabled by my lack of vision when it rains (glasses need to come with windscreen wipers! I can't see shit in the rain)
- Ahh... The ol' "What do you call alternative medicine that works?"-aroo.

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