Originally Posted by djrobins
Many in their “jobs” do what they are told and take it no further. All the motivation stripped by the process.
Little advancements are cheap. Big advancements are expensive. Major innovation takes time (man hours) which in business terms costs money. It may also require a great deal of material resources as well. This also equates to money. It typically takes hundreds or thousands of experimental advancements to make one real breakthrough. That means that type of investment is very low return. If you’re the one that happens to make it, then it can be a total game-changer, but the chances of being the one to make that next new thing is extremely low.
This is why most pharmaceutical companies spend the bulk of their R&D investment on reformulations of existing products. The new and different drugs are developed in university laboratories by federal grant money (in the US anyway). Then the patents or licenses are sold.
To continue the automobile analogy, it is why for decades Ferrari made the best race cars in the world yet they were perpetually in the red, fighting bankruptcy. Enzo Ferrari spent the money and the time and made the breakthroughs himself but it was so expensive to do so that he still couldn’t turn much of a profit.
Companies discovered a long time ago that most of the time it is a safer bet to let the private enthusiasts invest their own time and money. Then, when one of them has a great idea… simply buy it from them. They don’t want to sell? Bury them in bogus patent lawsuits for years, betting that the individual enthusiast doesn’t have the finances to keep fighting it in court, while they try and get their new product off the ground.
You can bet that if someone does ever invent a pill that can “add 3 inches to your willy in just 2 weeks!!”, You won’t be seeing it in ads on the back cover of magazines or at 2:00 in the morning infomercials. Johnson and Johnson will snatch that up in a heartbeat, and you’ll be seeing it on primetime commercials right between ads for the newest version of Cialis, and the latest season of Survivor.
The issue here isn’t that the methods don’t work. The problem is that no one in mainstream medicine or marketing has figured out a way to successfully pitch to global consumers that involves a 6-month to 2-year program. One that is time-intensive, labor-intensive, runs the risk of injury, and requires both unwavering dedication and indefinite maintenance afterwards.
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