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Research is expensive af. Lab equipment is expensive af. Paying all the participants is expensive af. Lab mice and other animals are expensive af. Plus you gotta pay the scientist, and they didn't go to school for 8 years to be paid pennies. And no medicine gets created with just one scientist, it's a team.
Then you gotta factor in the process engineers (they get paid a pretty penny too), quality control scientist and just the basic operating costs.
I'm not saying pharmaceutical companies, like all companies, don't hike prices. But shits expensive.
My coworker broke a $500 seive the other day. No big deal just pull out another $500 seive from the closet.
Our $500,000 analyzer break down? No big deal just have the company send down a guy and use the $30,000/year care package.
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