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So how can we get the same people motivated to work for a cure?

Out of curiosity, exactly how would these people work for a cure?

It can't be money, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is shockingly well funded to the tune of a quarter of a billion dollars in 2012 and that's just one of the dozens of nonprofits not to mention all the leukemia research organizations. Surely you can't mean for them to drop what they are doing and get a Ph.D. and go into research?

Nobody ever means that, but some days I wonder what the hell I'm doing. I'm not a genius, by any standard, and I likely wouldn't be the one to come up with the cure for cancer, but why the hell am I not dedicating my life to that project and helping those people there might find a way to eradicate cancer? Or HIV/AIDS? Or child poverty? Some days I think that would not be a bad idea, to drop everything and dedicate my life to something greater than myself.

Nothing to see here. Just your usual existential crisis brought on by a comment about a kid dressed up as Batman.

Don't bother with the pH.d. I only made 40k with that degree trying to cure cancer. On the one hand, where is that money going? On the other hand, I wouldn't pay most PhDs half that.

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