You know, when you boil it all down, most things in life are about the approval process. Money has become the defacto standard for approval. If the FDA requires millions of dollars to be approved, then the people, law, and pharmacies believe that organization getting approval must be approve worthy.

If you are a guy in a shed with a couple thousand bucks and a cancer cure, ... hmm... you're just a guy in a shed. If you were smart enough to cure cancer, obviously you'd have more than a couple thousand bucks -- right?

So that's how society works. A series of gate keepers who have become persuasive enough to acquire "convincing wealth". Wealth is all you need to convince others that whatever you have and whatever you may have in the future is worth buying into, either in thought, or as a product. Many times, this convincing is as easy as an advertisement on television or some clever lawyers who can figure out that all you have to do is change the name of your product and market it to another segment to extend your patent.