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.
If we assume longevity treatments will be drugs, we should look at existing drugs to get a sense of how $ they might be. Some drugs are hard 2 make, so they cost a lot (hundreds of thousands $ / yr), but AFAIK none are near the price of a fighter jet
Some that R very expensive R things like CAR-T cells, which are "grown" from patients own cells, in specialized conditions, edited, and reintroduced.
But even those are like ~200-300k