Generally speaking, old rich people chase Stay Young cures like a starving rat chases the smell of rotting trash. They'll bite on just about anything when they're desperate enough. The "for rich people only" caveat on medical research tends to apply to the really boutique and not particularly well-established cures. Once you have a treatment that's reliable, industrial production of medicine means a good solution can get rolled out quickly and cheaply for a much larger audience.
The real stopgaps in medicine tend to be much more mundane. Do you have time and accommodations just to get in and see a doctor or are you stuck making a 2-hour drive to the nearest clinic? Can you get routine examinations, like X-rays and MRIs and sonograms and blood work, to even diagnose the problem you're experiencing? Do you have access to any kind of surgery center? Consider the 3x rate of childbirth related deaths between white and black Americans. This isn't cutting edge medicine that's being denied.
Imagine a century or an eternity of :my-hero: and :lord-bezos-amused:
Old Boss same as the New Boss. These guys got rich relatively young and they'll likely stay rich for the rest of your natural life. But even if they didn't, are they really any better or worse than your Bills Gates or your Warrens Buffet or your Kochs or Adelsons or Mercers? Do you pine for the days of Carnegie and Ford?
Forty flavors of asshole all still taste like shit. I don't really care if Musk lives to be 1000 years old or if he gets supplanted by a new business tyrant in another twenty.
Generally speaking, old rich people chase Stay Young cures like a starving rat chases the smell of rotting trash. They'll bite on just about anything when they're desperate enough. The "for rich people only" caveat on medical research tends to apply to the really boutique and not particularly well-established cures. Once you have a treatment that's reliable, industrial production of medicine means a good solution can get rolled out quickly and cheaply for a much larger audience.
The real stopgaps in medicine tend to be much more mundane. Do you have time and accommodations just to get in and see a doctor or are you stuck making a 2-hour drive to the nearest clinic? Can you get routine examinations, like X-rays and MRIs and sonograms and blood work, to even diagnose the problem you're experiencing? Do you have access to any kind of surgery center? Consider the 3x rate of childbirth related deaths between white and black Americans. This isn't cutting edge medicine that's being denied.
Old Boss same as the New Boss. These guys got rich relatively young and they'll likely stay rich for the rest of your natural life. But even if they didn't, are they really any better or worse than your Bills Gates or your Warrens Buffet or your Kochs or Adelsons or Mercers? Do you pine for the days of Carnegie and Ford?
Forty flavors of asshole all still taste like shit. I don't really care if Musk lives to be 1000 years old or if he gets supplanted by a new business tyrant in another twenty.