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Good question. So what's your answer and why?

Broken windows fallacy. If 100m highly competent people were involved in managing cancer, and we cured cancer, these 100m highly competent people could then turn their attention and skills to something else important. There are plenty of health care crises in the world

Yes.

It will be painful for some folks to transition to doing something else for sure.

I know you are just using random numbers but 10 million people die per year.

The benefit would outweigh the cost.