ChildeHarold

Sophia Artang is fake.

I took a job as a medical assistant. I was not certified. It was during COVID, and the manager was woefully understaffed. I had zero experience or training. They still hired me, because in her words "we can teach you everything you need to know, and your resume demonstrated you were a good learner so that's all that matters." (I had taught myself Chinese and coding, and put that on the resume).

I worked my butt off, and after two years when I had to leave to go back to school they offered me a massive raise, more training to get me a promotion as an actual technician to start making 80k/year, and they even said when I finished grad school I could be taken on as a partner and own the business (it was a small clinic). They wanted to do anything to get me to stay.

All these companies these days care too much about certs. They don't know how to hire. They should look for resume's that demonstrate learning, initiative, responsibility, and commitment. Because at the end of the day: almost anyone can learn any job that isn't a PhD-level.

Like, having managers be required to have a college degree is moronic.

TLDR yes, they are wrong.

1. Prisoner's dilemma. As a pharmaceutical company, you know theoretically a cure for a given chronic illness exists. What you don't know is if your competitor is close to having one. If they are, it would render your pathetic non-curative regimes obsolete and you'd lose billions and be decades behind. Shareholders would be calling for blood, and if you're the CEO or board exec you'd lose your head. So you work on developing the drug because even if its possibly less profitable, its still in your best interest to do the research.

2. Most people doing this kind of research are universities, which are publicly funded and would gain more profit from a curative drug than they would from letting big pharma continue using non-curative regimens.

3. Government has strong interest in developing cures because chronic illness is a massive drain on the economy costing billions of dollars, with significant public health costs that eat into government budgets that politicians would much rather spend on things like weapons or parking meters that accept credit cards.