I always hear this argument, but never any evidence to back it up. Is it simply regurgitating econ 101? There must be some economic incentive? Any time people <i>die</i> from a disease, that alone creates an incentive for those left living to find a cure.<p>What econ doesn&#x27;t teach is that people are not perfectly rational creatures. Just like we will find people who will write code for free, who will make music for free, there will always be people who are searching for cures for the sake of searching for cures.<p>I don&#x27;t buy the argument that only Big Pharma who can deliver cures. As the article pointed out, Gilead didn&#x27;t develop the cure. They bought the company that did.