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Why focus on age-related disease when massive racial and economic disparities still prevent a large proportion of the population from even reaching an advanced
by psychometry 9y ago
Why focus on age-related disease when massive racial and economic disparities still prevent a large proportion of the population from even reaching an advanced age?
- icelancer 9y ago"Why work on this burning city when this earthquake-ridden city is in shambles!" a) There's no obligation to work on earthquake-ridden cities over any other issue. b) Mythical Man Month problem; firefighters might be good at extinguishing flame but not repairing earthquake issues, and there's only so many civil engineers to go around. c) Your comment is proof that no good deed goes unpunished.
- TheAdamAndChe 9y agod) YC is fantastic and produces results, but a startup accelerator probably doesn't have a viable pathway to reduce economic disparities. Those will probably need to be addressed through political means.
- Techowl 9y agoYou'd be surprised. Heart disease, for example, is one of the deadliest age-related diseases, but it's by no means exclusive to the wealthy. See for example the World Health Organization's statistics[0]; they report that three quarters of deaths from cardiovascular disease occur in low-income and middle-income countries. [0] http://www.who.int/cardiovascular_diseases/en/ http://www.who.int/cardiovascular_diseases/en/
- bpicolo 9y agoNot only would I not fault them if they hadn't tried anything along the lines, but they've been doing a UBI pilot for ages.
- snowmaker 9y agoI agree - we need to work on both.