MS can be rough but has extremely effective treatments compared to the other diseases mentioned

Gonna add MLD to that list as well.

I want to add Leptomeningeal Disease. It occurs when cancer spreads to the CSF and spinal cord, usually in metastatic brain cancer patients. I have a parent in this right now.

oh. I didn’t want that remind on my funny social media. Shit is hard.

Being a kings fan proabbly deserves a mention

Don’t those come from deer meat?

Good one

This is just pointlessly cynical conjecture. There’s been many cures for all kinds of diseases over the last 100 years. The reality is for a lot of things a simple “cure” might not be physically possible.

Curing a disease and patenting it would make that company more than any treatment on this planet though.

We have cures for tons and tons and tons of diseases

There aren’t doctors out there who have knowingly discovered a cure for diseases that are purposefully withholding it to make money. It’s just not how it works

Some theoretically possible cures for rare diseases don’t exist because the funding needed is astronomical relative to the potential impact, but that’s an entirely different question

Any reason it’s controversial? Genuinely asking. If we as humanity can remove terrible life altering defects, shouldn’t we?

Also probably really stupid. Imo it runs much to high of a risk, just imagine the viruses, bacteria and diseases that could adapt to what we’re doing. I don’t really see much talked about that when it comes to the gene editing, and that scares me.

bro stop. Quicken and Rocket Mortgage were getting sued into oblivion up until a few years ago. Who found them “not-guilty”? They literally settled with the department of justice

this is like the 4th puff piece about Gilbert these playoffs in this sub (each about different circumstances). So yes, I’m sorry about his son, but dude is still a piece of shit who made his billions exploiting the poor.

Maybe everyone else is falling for PR bullshit for this ghoul. He’s not a good person.

The Cavs are such an insanely small part of what Dan Gilbert does that the playoffs probably don’t even register for his PR team

I’m assuming cause these types of stories are for the offseason. Granted, I think this story is tragic but beautiful in what Gilbert has been doing. But, the focus should be on the players, not the owner during the team’s biggest playoff run since the Bron Cavs

It’s a fucked up system for sure

I give him a lot of credit for continuing to spend on it even after losing his child.

Two things can be true. From what I read, Dan Gilbert seems to be a generous billionaire that invests back in many communities in need. But our taxes and healthcare system are fucked. Everything is set up to rob the poor and benefit the rich.

exactly. the only reason he’s doing something like this is because he was personally affected. why couldn’t he do something like this beforehand? it’s not like he needs to save money

Correct. He’s doing a good thing here but he’s not a good guy. I can’t think of a single NBA owner off the top of my head that is

Careful, people love billionaires, especially when they do 1 or 2 nice things after doing 1000 bad things (note, every time he hurts a poor person, its a thing).

You can dislike the guy, but what a vile reaction to have about his son dying and his funding of research for that disease. I am guessing you don’t actually know much about his background as you are not from the city of Detroit or Cleveland, where he does most of his business (judging from your post history.

He is no saint and has a complex history, but using an article that is 15 years old, almost 10 years old, or one that’s only two months old, that is two paragraphs about a fresh lawsuit isn’t the slam dunk you think it is. Especially given one of them is MetroTimes (which cites another link you posted) which is a very biased (and not very reputable) activist-esque publication.

Without Dan Gilbert and his investments in Detroit, it would be in a MUCH worse place and would have had a much harder time crawling out of the gutter post-bankruptcy. He has been the major catalyst for development that has allowed the city to spring back and have a very positive trajectory moving forward.

So, he isn’t a scumbag billionaire ripping you off and telling you to be grateful. He has done a lot of positive things. He has done some negative things as well. Life isn’t black and white like you want it to be. It has shades of grey. Purity tests like this are obnoxious.

Dan Gilbert kickstarted Detroit’s renaissance. GTFO with this tankie nonsense.

He’s a predatory lender, how many families has he made suffer and continues to make suffer to make himself richer?

Exactly. It’s so weird how people are grasping for straws. He lost his son, and now he’s making it his life to fight against the disease that robbed him of his son so other families will have a chance. This is exactly the type of rich people we need in this world.

Fuck him and all the losers sucking him off.

People have these unrealistic expectations and purity tests of people where the demand perfection, otherwise you get 0 empathy and are seen as this cartoon villain. Life isn’t black and white. People aren’t either. Why can’t we just take this one point at face value and call it a good deed? It is exhausting.

It is also mostly from people who don’t really know much about Dan Gilbert outside of some negative headlines someone else here on Reddit fed them.

Suck his dick a little harder and maybe he won’t kick your family out of their house to make a few extra bucks. Fucking losers.

*gestures broadly at the entire Earth*

Likely plenty of things that he doesn’t have the power to change because he hasn’t made billions running a predatory loan company.

Dan Gilbert is not a good guy despite the personal tragedy he has experienced. Making billions off predatory business practices and spending millions to whitewash your image is not a good thing.

Because empathy?

Everything man. Are you serious? Not caring about others is a clinical problem.

Now that’s a good one people need to think about. Even folks in teaching, nursing, philanthropy, etc..I wonder. Because since very young, people hardly do for others unless it directly benefits them.

Whether it’s cash, emotion, reciprocity, etc.

Haha

Not everyone is as stupid as you

I don’t know about the government solving all this you speak of. Humans still have influence, manipulative behaviors and can make their own choices.

He’s a predatory lender, he directly causes some of those issues then spends money lobbying the government to make sure he can keep doing it.

Such a weird fucking take man, he gets rich by taking advantage of and hurting the poor and your response is “why the fuck does he need to solve these issues with his finances?”

The government is funded less because of Dan Gilbert and dipshits like you that worship him.