Expectation: my back won’t hurt so much randomly in the mornings.
Reality: corporations successfully lobby to raise retirement age to 78, and we all get to enjoy watching billionaires romp around with space tourism and talk shit on Twitter well into their 100s.
I feel like anti-aging is pursued largely by those who can afford it and those who are too vain to exist in society where we all just enjoy the lives we’re allotted.
Yeah this is the most obvious outcome, and anyone saying otherwise is deluded, in my opinion. If the American medical-industrial complex has taught us anything, it’s that any benefits research like this is likely to accrue will be hoarded by a few rich people who can continue to enjoy an absurd standard of living, maybe for a few years longer now. That is the best case scenario, assuming that further research results in any applicable treatments, etc.
Maybe I’m too cynical but I can’t even imagine it playing out otherwise. Look at what happened with insulin.
Expectation: my back won’t hurt so much randomly in the mornings.
Reality: corporations successfully lobby to raise retirement age to 78, and we all get to enjoy watching billionaires romp around with space tourism and talk shit on Twitter well into their 100s.
I feel like anti-aging is pursued largely by those who can afford it and those who are too vain to exist in society where we all just enjoy the lives we’re allotted.
Yeah this is the most obvious outcome, and anyone saying otherwise is deluded, in my opinion. If the American medical-industrial complex has taught us anything, it’s that any benefits research like this is likely to accrue will be hoarded by a few rich people who can continue to enjoy an absurd standard of living, maybe for a few years longer now. That is the best case scenario, assuming that further research results in any applicable treatments, etc.
Maybe I’m too cynical but I can’t even imagine it playing out otherwise. Look at what happened with insulin.