Making Money Off Of Diseases
A friend told me the other day about a new fad that’s sweeping the middle-aged female segment of the population: Botox parties. Brilliant. Somewhere some genius thought to himself “how can I combine botulism and Pampered Chef?” and a new craze was born.
I’ve been thinking about that business model (a disease and a multilevel marketing scheme) and how I can make it work for me. Unfortunately it’s pretty tough. Most of the combinations just don’t add up to something people would probably want. Tuberculosis and PartyLite? Necrotizing fasciitis and Mary Kay? Those don’t make any sense at all. The only one that sorta did was dysentery and Tupperware, and I think we can all see why that’s a bad idea.
I’m considering hiring some R&D scientists to try to find a strain of bubonic plague that eliminates grey hair, or maybe a malaria mutation that makes boobs stop sagging. Once we’ve got something I’ll let you know and you can join the pyramid at the top.
