As for the upper class, ha, it's even simpler. Why do you think pharmaceutical companies are so rich? Do you think what they're after is really just the paltry profits from the poor and the corporate drones?
Wrong, it's the Elixir of Life...
But this topic, if elaborated, is too vast. Let's chat another day. Right now, Li Pan needs to mix some psych meds.
Wandering through the pharmacy, I noticed the wild competition among pharmaceutical companies. Year after year, they rolled out new products, constantly changing formulas and packaging, with hundreds of brands and factories for the same drug, periodically tossing in new ingredients and novelties for experiments. It was utterly dizzying.
Li Pan, well-versed in self-medication, selected products from Cool Baboon off the shelves according to the prescription and threw them into the pharmacist system to conduct a trial mix, making sure the concoction prescribed by the Barefoot Doctor wouldn't kill anyone.