Poll: You invent a cure for everything...what do you do with it.

[Hashime]

Sell it for an unimaginable amount of money, but control to whom every dose goes, and not allow it to be reverse engineered or studied. That way I can charge what I want, help countries I feel like helping, and not give it to countries or people that I do not desire to.
I might even release a super virus that can only be cured by my miracle drug, killing everyone who does not, can not, or I won't let pay for a cure.

 

[aLivingPheonix]

Sell it to the government, in exchange for limitless money, and to be above the law.

Or, just sell it for... $50,000 per dose.

 

[XMark]

I'd give it away for free.

Overpopulation wouldn't be an issue. Countries with higher quality of life have lower birth rates. Most first-world countries have zero or negative population growth.

Population growth is already falling worldwide, even in the third world. World population is expected to even out at a steady 8-10 billion by 2050 just the way things are now. Increase quality of life world-wide and we'll reach a population plateau that's lower and sooner than that.

Anyway, if we had a cure for everything, that frees up all sorts of scientific research dollars to do the really cool stuff like get our asses to Mars.

EDIT: I wouldn't charge anything for it, but I'd make millions from the publicity

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Give it to the world, starting with the 3rd world countries first. Also I'd give it in away that if anyone was caught trying to sell it, they would be arrested. All of humanity gets it for free... And if not, I'll come after them

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Feign that i'm going to give it to everybody, and as I vaccinate myself pretend there was a complication and that I died ... destroy all my work, notes and any remaining vials. THen assume an alias, get cosmetic surgery from a close friend, and live the rest of my days in seclusion with my own personal library.

Writing my memoirs and all that which people can discover after my death ... consisting of 50 pages written about my life, and the other 500 pages a flipbook of a cartoon version of me poking my tongue out and mooning the reader.

 

[v3n0mat3]

Patent the cure first. Can't have half-assed copies going around. I don't think I have the heart to sell it, however. I would distribute it based upon people whom I think deserve it. Rare and/or terminal illnesses go first. Children get it first before the elders do, obviously. As I expand, I will create distribution centers all over the globe. These centers will be built on the conditions that there will be military personnel (Coalition forces, preferable. US+European forces would be my #1 choice.) guarding it 24/7/365. The company will be a non-profit based company that only accepts donations and grants. At no time will the cure be distributed to convicts, cruel world leaders, or terrorists. There will be a thorough background check before each distribution, pending my own personal review if they are.

 

[Absimilliard]

Give it away. For free. Trust me, I would rather have overpopulation on my conscience than seeing on the news people dying and knowing I could have done something to stop it.

Ditto. Also, for those of you talking about getting money from it, remember: Nobel Prizes...

 

[RJ Dalton]

Hide it under my bed and tell no one. I don't need the attention.

 

[deth2munkies]

Destroy it. It would cause overpopulation on the earth and would fuck up the entire natural order.

Not only that, but it'd probably be confiscated and used as a political weapon.

 

[FalloutJack]

I would set it loose upon the world secretly and then spread the rumor that there is a vicious virulent disease that everyone can catch, nobody is immune to, and spreads like wildfire.

Afterwhich, I would watch what happens with glee.

 

[Blemontea]

Re invent the formula, make it less powerful and sell that to the world so we could still get sick, tell the people i never thought it would work and the media exaggerated the story, and during this whole time i secretly pour it into the ocean so that all the fish are cured of disease and live till eaten.

 

[Treeinthewoods]

Whichever country builds the most rocking monument/tribute to me gets it. You all have six months, get to work... now.

 

[Mosesj]

i will give it, but i would put a virus that suggests people to goodness

 

[smashmaniac64]

Destroy it.

dam ninjas >_<

 

[Spencer Petersen]

Tell them that it was a placebo and the real cure was healthy eating, exercise and being nice to people.

 

[ShakerSilver]

I'd sell it! That science didn't come cheap you know!

Seriously though, I'd probably send it to some medical institution, maybe get a Noble Prize later on. Yaaaaay!

 

[RedDeadFred]

I would sell it for trillions of dollars to all of the countries in the world.

Then I would buy and island and everything I need for it to be self sufficient. Then the greedy world can go kill themselves while me and my family and friends live in my paradise. I would also buy a huge surplus of weapons of mass destruction and various nuclear deterrents to keep anyone from fucking with me.

 

[Littlee300]

Only give it to those I care about, and deny the media.

Every government in the world would be on your ass within 10 minutes.