I would take the fusion plant; an energy technology that is cheaper than fossil fuels in all major ways is basically a license to print money. Most literally it is a license to print money—you could sell the patent for more than a billion dollars and then cure even more tuberculosis.
Note that I said “someone”—meaning someone other than me—does the inventing. And the alternative is “The TB bacteria immediately becomes extinct—nobody ever gets TB again, and everyone who has it is immediately cured.”
I would take the fusion plant; an energy technology that is cheaper than fossil fuels in all major ways is basically a license to print money. Most literally it is a license to print money—you could sell the patent for more than a billion dollars and then cure even more tuberculosis.
Note that I said “someone”—meaning someone other than me—does the inventing. And the alternative is “The TB bacteria immediately becomes extinct—nobody ever gets TB again, and everyone who has it is immediately cured.”
Point taken, I misread your scenario.