I just want to explore the universe but without FTL spaceships I would need to stay alive for a very long time
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I just want to explore the universe but without FTL spaceships I would need to stay alive for a very long time
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The "elites only" narrative makes no sense.
Firstly, biomedically it's not possible to develop a treatment with just one subject or a few.
Secondly, commercially it makes no sense to severely limit your market. When cars, the internet, televisions, planes, were invented, they weren't limited to the elite; they were launched to a mass market.
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Zolgensma, a gene therapy drug that treats the most common genetic cause of infant and child death, costs $2.1 million dollars for a dose. The disease in question affects 1 in 10,000 babies.
Zokinvy costs it's users around $86,000 per month, and it's used to reduce death risk in those with progeria, which affects around 1 in 18 million.
You can absolutely launch a drug only affordable to the billionaire class, or targeted at an incredibly tiny population. Whatever the market will bear, right?
It sort of is, actually.
There is no single subject or a few for insulin, but have you seen the price of it in the United States versus what it actually costs to make?
Human lifespans are already strangled down by life-preserving medicine and healthcare being priced out of the reach of the working class.