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Do you cure cancer if it means that 100 million people will lose their jobs?


Broken windows fallacy. If 100m highly competent people were involved in managing cancer, and we cured cancer, these 100m highly competent people could then turn their attention and skills to something else important. There are plenty of health care crises in the world


Yes.

It will be painful for some folks to transition to doing something else for sure.

I know you are just using random numbers but 10 million people die per year.

The benefit would outweigh the cost.


Good question. So what's your answer and why?




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