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While this is awesome, I wonder why we hear a lot about businessmen who score big then funneling their wealth into moonshot projects about space exploration (Ri
by needle0 7y ago
While this is awesome, I wonder why we hear a lot about businessmen who score big then funneling their wealth into moonshot projects about space exploration (Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Takafumi Horie, etc), but hardly ever on medical science and life extension. To me that seems like a much more urgent and personally relevant issue - I mean, without advancing the state of the art on those fields, even those rich & powerful men are all going to be dead in a mere 120 years. Why don't they seem to be doing much to address that when they're in the rare position to be able to do so?
*Edit: Richard Branson of Virgin Group, not Charles Bronson.
- mc32 7y agoDo you mean Richard Branson rather than the actor known as Charles Bronson? That said, lots of people are benefactors of health and medicine. Maybe they don’t get the same notoriety, but maybe they weren’t looking for it either.
- needle0 7y agoAck, you're right, Charles Bronson.
- dtwest 7y agoBoth the wealthy and society as a whole spend way more on medical science than space. It's fairly common in the US for every wing of a hospital or every building in a medical school to be named after some rich businessman who is doing just that.
- michaelmior 7y agoBill and Melinda Gates being notable exceptions of course.