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I am of the opinion that the elite top 0.1% would intentionally hoard this and make it out of reach of even your standard rich person. I don't think they would
by stjohnswarts 5y ago
I am of the opinion that the elite top 0.1% would intentionally hoard this and make it out of reach of even your standard rich person. I don't think they would allow this tech to spread such that ordinary people could get their hands on it.
- hungryforcodes 5y agoAh, American thinking? Just go to Asia, every medicine on the planet is copied there and sold cheaply at pretty much any pharmacy.
- HWR_14 5y agoAnd what percentage of the time is is medicine free of nasty additives? As opposed to labeled sugar pills. Or heck, how there are cases of lead in paint still.
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- staticassertion 5y agoAll evidence points to the contrary. We have OTC drugs, or relatively accessible prescriptions, that already expand health and lifespan drastically - otherwise we'd all be dying young.
- ben_w 5y agoI don’t think anyone physically could horde it for even as long as 20 years no matter how hard they tried. Tech has a way of diffusing rapidly — things that start off only affordable by the richest yuppies of Wall Street and London can be superseded by street-wares in Nairobi, and this is not limited to just computers and phones, for example one of the YouTube channels I follow genetically engineered yeast to produce spider silk: https://youtu.be/2hf9yN-oBV4 https://youtu.be/2hf9yN-oBV4
- inglor_cz 5y agoIs there any precedent of any medical technology hoarded by the 0.1%? I don't think so. Once something is out and proven to be cost-effective, even expensive treatments, it proliferates into the top 5-10 per cent of the world's population pretty fast.