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Death is the great equalizer, despots leave behind power vacuums to be filled by their many illegitimate children or other parties for vying for power. Good to know that the maximum extent of any of these reigns is 80 years.
As for us living long enough to figure things out, I wonder instead if we simply just retreat more and more into our creature comforts and echo chambers
Death isn't a great equaliser, it's just pain for decades and then death. How old are you ๐ ?
In the same vein, should we stop all medical help to speed up this process of yours ๐ ?
Kidding a bit, we'll see what happens if/when it does I guess.
Old enough to see powerful rich old men unwilling to pass on control onto anyone else, both personally and in the public sphere.
Medical progress that trickles down to the masses (e.g. washing your hands after delivering a baby) is a net benefit to all. We have however seen the limits of trickle down theory, and are currently witnessing the dismantling of large public medical and scientific resources (NIH in particular was a longstanding pillar) at a speed and scale never quite done before, whilst pharmaceutical companies are swallowing up the talent pool.
Future medical advances genuinely might happen behind closed doors in the future, instead of under the eye of public discourse.
All the longevity research is very public as it is today, and if not both the USA and most European countries becomes dictatorships (and if it do, young or old it will be the same), I don't see that change.
They figured out a remedy for huntingtons disease not long ago, and the covid mRna vaccine was incredible science.
I'm on the optimistic side here.