it seems like business people need to wrap their mind around creating a process that allows these one off solutions to be made more easily. There are probably over a million people with a one off genetic problem that would be worth at least 100,000 to solve. Making a one off solution once is obviously not the solution, but instead engineering the process to allow the one off solutions to be generated more quickly and easily.
1,000,000 * 100,000 = 100,000,000,000
A possible 100 Trillion dollar industry seems like a very stupid thing to ignore.
The other thing to remember is that making a genetic toolkit to fix genetic errors is a potentially low liability solution, if well tested, documented and proven. The liability would still rest primarily with the practitioner.
"A possible 100 [b]illion dollar industry seems like a very stupid thing to ignore."
Even taking your optimistic numbers at face value, that's revenue, not profit. A 100 billion dollar industry with what I would conservatively estimate as having several trillion in costs is not something we can pursue.
I've got my own boutique genetic problems in my house (not quite a one-off in effect, but probably technically novel), so I've got skin in the game, but this is just wishful thinking. Even just funding all the known rare diseases is not something we can really afford, let alone dedicating millions to every one-off mutation. We aren't that rich.
I'm sympathetic to claims we ought to have enough for food and water and basic housing for everybody, but that does not translate into having enough to create custom bespoke medical research programs for everybody, or even a significant fraction of "everybody". If nothing else, food, water, and basic housing are widespread skills; fixing genetic errors would always bottleneck on the number of available people who can do it, which is never going to be as large as the number of people who can build some sort of house.
1,000,000 * 100,000 = 100,000,000,000
A possible 100 Trillion dollar industry seems like a very stupid thing to ignore.
The other thing to remember is that making a genetic toolkit to fix genetic errors is a potentially low liability solution, if well tested, documented and proven. The liability would still rest primarily with the practitioner.