system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
I believe the pharmaceutical industry has strong incentives to avoid curing diseases CMV

> Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime

In the logic of the quote above, I believe the pharmaceutical industry has a stronger incentive to 'give a man a fish' - i.e, to develop drugs that will manage diseases and their related symptoms. I do not believe that it is in their mandated profit-seeking interests to develop drugs that would turn a theoretically chronic disease needing constant drugs into a cure which would only need one cycle of treatment.
gpt
One thing you have to keep in mind is that while this may be true about the companies in isolation, things like medical research hospitals and universities are also researching these things as well.  These are direct competitors to the pharmaceutical companies in this sense.  If a university publishes a cure for cancer, the pharmaceutical company has been beaten to the punch, and they can't patent this cure and sell it, while also losing the demand for their non-curative treatments, so they have an incentive to find it themselves.