Getting a bit of push back from SV friends on my take that life extension technology will not become accessible to everyone. Well, 500-foot yachts have not become accessible to everyone. Why should life extension be different?
on this. Many promising therapies have no particular cost barrier. They’ll be like vaccinations or antibiotics if they work at all, ie improve baseline longevity. Some things will be like yachts but more things will be like bicycles.
Why are you thinking of longevity as a monolith? Nothing in the history of increasing lifespans supports that. It’s always been a suite of technologies with varied costs. There’s no reason to think there’ll be one magic bullet whose cost determines the economics of longevity.