Scientists Discover Ways of Making Old Blood New Again

Re:Scientists Discover Ways of Making Old Blood New Again by tayne on Monday June 06, 2022 @10:22AM (#31640873)

That’s like saying that one person will dominate the tv show survivor. In reality new cliques and alliances form all the time, power shifts and swirls as alliances coalesce and disperse. We will still have wars and disasters and things that no one person can control. Plus, people will still die just not necessarily from the disease of aging. I often notice that people resist something they are afraid of by thinking it will cause a disaster to change how things are. I think you are subconsciously afraid that it’s too good to be true. In reality it will be like penicillin or vaccines — massive improvement and not much else.

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Re:Scientists Discover Ways of Making Old Blood New Again by strogonoff on Monday June 06, 2022 @01:25PM (#31643212)

You may be thinking that this tech will automatically trickle down. There is infinite incentive to withhold it, whether by controlling access to it outright in a dictatorship or by letting it naturally be exorbitantly expensive in a market economy.

Note that in thought experiments I mentioned it is considered to exacerbate inequalities even if it is distributed equally to all. A thought experiment that reflects reality a bit better would be one where the rich not only get more rich thanks to money dynamics (plus a vicious circle of theft and violence in case of dictators, who are the bigger concern) but also never die.

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Re:Scientists Discover Ways of Making Old Blood New Again by strogonoff on Monday June 06, 2022 @03:31PM (#31644931)

> There are precisely zero things that were deliberately made to be more expensive than their intrinsic cost by a small group of “rich people and dictators”

Setting aside the fact that 0) US healthcare is pretty much all “things being made more expensive than their intrinsic cost”, believing 1) the market in a democracy is not affected by information asymmetry and 2) a dictator-kleptocrat elsewhere even needs to manipulate prices hints at immense naivety on your part.

> shut up

If it’s my mention of the June 4th incident that triggered such reaction, I hope the Party pays you well enough to justify the stress that reading Western media must be to you.

> you have no right to pose as some kind of intellectual

And you have clearly run out of substance to present.

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