Beauty is more important than Malaria

[Birrii]

Hi!

I've noticed that people are more into investing and supporting eyelash researchers than malaria researchers.

Now, we ALL know the reason: Money. It's all about the money. Now that they invest their money into eyelash research, they get more money (because people love long eyelashes, and they are never long enough).

HOWEVER,

don't people know that it takes longer for Malaria to be healed?

And by the way, where's the people's moral?

What can we do about this?

Please tell me your opinion, I would love to get better known with economy etc.

:3

[Balagor]

Peoples moral is in the wallet.

There is no money in malaria because those who gets it have no money.

People who worries about their eyelashes, have too much time

and too much money.

They are a good investment.

 

Sorry for my sarcasm.

[Sharkull]

Human nature. People pursue things that make their life better (subjectively).

 

Companies which are for-profit must undertake a business plan which has a chance at producing revenue... otherwise the company's owners will seek other management (who will presumably provide a better return on investment).

 

Individuals are also often wrapped up in their own lives, so philanthropy is not on their list of priorities. Superficiality is all too common.

 

Pleas for charity often turn me off... Guilt ridden tactics are extremely distasteful to me. Also, lots of charities are sadly turning into fund-raising organizations, with a disproportionate portion of donations going to administration and overhead vs. good acts.

http://www.oag.state.ny.us/media_center/20.../dec30a_08.html

http://www.charityintelligence.ca/?page=11

 

When I do decide to give, I choose causes that have personal meaning to me... and sorry, but Malaria research isn't one of those things.

 

 

 

At the end of the day, spend your money on what you want to. If fighting Malaria is important to you, find a charity and donate / volunteer.

[jaosals42]

Money ofc. Here's a scenario:

 

A fashion company wants to develop some new makeup to make themselves more money. They hire some "beautiful" models to display the makeup and make it all "oooh! Ahh!" to the female viewers. Then they go out and buy the stuff and the company goes and makes good money out of their product. Shoot, they maybe even were false advertising and really just made makeup out of food coloring and gave their models the real-thing just so they spend less on their product and get a bigger profit. Where does the money go? To the pockets of the company's shareholders.

 

Another company thinks they're going to make money out of making a cure for a disease that happens to be widespread only in "third-world countries" (and I use the term fairly loosely) and not in the countries they wish to serve. Then, they realize that they're really not going to make much money out of it because the people who need it can't afford basic medical services, much less for the $100 cure the company just developed. They soon go bankrupt after spending much money on something that didn't sell where it needed to or when it was needed.

 

And then the rest of the people who are in our status (and no offense at this), who can give a bit of money each to help these people would rather spend our money on luxuries that we never end up using much like an extra remote control, or new clothes when the older ones still fit and look fine, or a new set of speakers when the other ones still worked. That's what happens with all this.

[Balagor]

Speakin about it.

Many companies producing cures for AIDS,

will NOT accept that cheaper copies are sold in Africa,

where the need is great, and the welfare low.

[Sharkull]

Treatments are not cures. Cure a customer and they aren't a customer anymore. Treat a customer and you have a customer for life. That's the biggest perversion in medical research today... seeking treatments instead of cures.

[Marcus Wolfe]

It's a capitalist's world out there, my friends. If there's no profit to be found, it won't happen. Want to cure malaria? Make finding a cure profitable. That's all it takes.

[Vagrant0]

There's a reason why tuberculosis and polio aren't eliminated from the world although the cure already exists and can be gotten rather cheaply in some countries. There is just no money to be made by doing it, but there is money to be made by saying that you will... figure that one out.

[Marcus Wolfe]

Of course, if those charities are all they crack up to be, there will be a significant number of successful entrepreneurs from these third world countries in the next half century. These entrepreneurs, if they arise from the common folk, would have the motivation and the money to hire good scientists to find a cure for malaria, profits be damned. Alternatively, the vast wealth they bring to their nation could turn a malaria cure into a profitable investment. So either way, the best course of action appears to be to increase the power of capitalism in the infected areas.

[AncientSpaceAeon]

Too much money. Some people is too rich and some people is too poor.