I never said this particular scientific avenue was the best to take to fix the problem. All I did was agree the problem itself stemmed from capitalism. Which is 100% true and nothing you have said indicates otherwise. In fact, you kind of keep giving away the game.

Why take your most brilliant chemists and physicists away from improving base processes in chemical synthesis and put them to work making a really expensive and not particularly useful drug?

So what you’re saying is there’s a scarcity of scientists who can work to fix this problem, maybe because society spends more on corporate welfare and the military industrial complex than on education and science funding? And because only profitable research is funded? All as a consequence of capitalism?