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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
All drugs eventually go generic. It sometimes takes a few more years then it should though.
gpt
Actually incorrect. We are approaching a serious issue where extremely complex medications are so COST PROHIBITIVE that companies that specialize in generics don't have any intention of ever trying. Take pfizer for example. They have drugs with patents that expired in the early 2000s that will most likely never be made generic (in the traditional sense). They use specific, genetically modified microbes, responsible for enzyme catalyzation in reactions required for medication synthesis. These microbes are not patented, HOWEVER, they are literally guarded in the same fashion as nuclear weapons. Basically there is extremely restricted access, they are modified to to not even survive in typical conditions (can only survive in conditions that ONLY pfizer knows). Their genetic code is where all the money is. And that simply can not be recreated without corporate espionage or outright theft.

EDIT: fixed some spelling because I'm clearly regarded.