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Is your longevity drug going to be offered for free? They'll almost certainly be cheaper than the costs of treating the effects of aging. Are you going to use

Is your longevity drug going to be offered for free? They'll almost certainly be cheaper than the costs of treating the effects of aging. Are you going to use taxes to pay for everyone's right to live? We do this already. we all know that in the current social and economic system, anti-aging drugs are just going to worsen inequality This is extreme zero-sum thinking. Has chemotherapy worsened inequality?

macintux 3y ago
> They'll almost certainly be cheaper than the costs of treating the effects of aging. Will they really reduce the medical costs of aging when you take into account the longer lifespan? To borrow an argument from a different branch of the thread: if everyone lived to be only 20, would you expect that medical expenses would be more than they are today, or less?