[thomasdeleeuw]

A sad day for humanity when death, the great equalizer, gets closer to being controlled by rich people. Not that rich people not already have access to better healthcare, but still.

[unsupp0rted]

Why can’t we all live in caves and chase our prey across the savannah, all equal, until a broken leg or an infected scratch causes certain death, like nature intended?

[Devasta]

Might just be me, but I don't think the world would be a better place with a separate caste of immortals controlling the world governments and resources.

Crazy, I know.

[sgu999]

To others: how are these kind of arguments called? "We probably or may not need X" "Alright you go back to eating bananas in a tree then!"

EDIT: Had forgotten for a second that we can know ask this kind of questions to a computer, "straw man argument".

[JumpCrisscross]

> sad day for humanity when death, the great equalizer, gets closer to being controlled by rich people

Sadder day for those who only sees tragedy in progress.

[worldsayshi]

What if it gets controlled by everyone?

[tetris11]

It could be a flip of a coin. Craig Venter[0] almost patented what was back then the human reference genome (based on his own genome), but thankfully publicly funded efforts prevailed to taper the profiteering.

We could be in a similar situation with anti-aging drugs. Plus, with citizen science projects making ad-hoc labs more accessible than ever, there's a good chance that normal people could make their own versions of these anti-aging drugs, assuming that science journals and informatic pipelines remain accessible (the current rent-seeking of top journals lends some small but worrying evidence against this).

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Venter#Human_Genome_Proj...

[cess11]

"That’s what I like about death, it’s democratic. It would irritate me if you could jog and live forever and I got stuck here smoking and having a good time and died over it. No, you’ll die too, you know, you’ll have thirty four more years to run up and down the stairmaster."

https://rickroderick.org/302-heidegger-and-the-rejection-of-...

[vsuperpower2020]

Great, now communists are going after longer lifespans again.