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Think of rich people as beta testers.

• ben_w 3y ago
  It's in the interest of the rich for the poor to be the beta testers. When anti-aging becomes real rather than fantasy, there are going to be so many mutually incompatible conspiracy theories.
  • midoridensha 3y ago
    >It's in the interest of the rich for the poor to be the beta testers. You're assuming the rich are rational. The billionaires on the OceanGate Titan didn't think this way; they were perfectly happy to beta-test a shoddily-designed sub.
    • ben_w 3y ago
      I was half tempted to reference that myself, but if I had, someone else would have replied with all the testing SpaceX does. (The recent explosion was such a test). (And that sub had apparently been to depth before? I didn't follow the details…)
      • midoridensha 3y ago
        The fact that one billionaire's company does a decent job testing doesn't mean that billionaire customers are paying attention, or that other billionaires aren't happy to be beta-testers for a different company that doesn't believe in testing or safety or regulation. I think the OceanGate disaster just shows that billionaires aren't any smarter or more rational than the rest of us.