An Ounce of Prevention...

...it is said, is worth a pound of cure.

It is thus obvious that many of our society's problems would best be solved through prevention, rather than cure.

Ironically, however, since in our capitalism-driven society a pound of anything is worth more than an once of it, people are most often more interested in pursuing (and marketing) the cure rather than the prevention.

To put it simply, there's a lot more money to be made selling cures rather than preventions.

Nowhere in our American society is that more clearly demonstrated than in our 'health care industry'.

The quest for greater individual wealth and power most often trumps common sense and what is in the best interest of society (and our species) as a whole.