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But it takes a generation or two for parents to adapt to the new reality of children actually surviving into adulthood & living prosperous lives.


It will likely also take a generation or two until our anti-aging technology actually works and is cheap enough to have a meaningful impact on the planetwide population.


Exactly, do people really think that anti-aging technology is on the verge of becoming available to people who currently have trouble getting clean drinking water or who are dying because they can't get a few dollars worth of anti-malaria drugs or antibiotics?

A lot of the world can barely afford dirt cheap medicine from decades ago. They aren't going to be able to afford state-of-the-art anti-aging treatments for a long time.




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