That’s a so boring trope IMO. Like stop inventing insulin, heart transplants and cancer treatments, only the rich will get it!!
What about being a wee bit excited for more and better treatments for the future?
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parpol@programming.dev 7 months ago
Can’t wait for rich billionaires’ kids to live to be 250 years old while everyone else dies from microplastics-induced early onset Alzheimer’s and childhood cancer from PFAS.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 7 months ago
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
What about being a wee bit excited for more and better treatments for the future?
That’s covered in other threads. Right now we are being depressed by the grim reality that quality Healthcare is quickly becoming out of reach for a lot of Americans, and the Americans who might have access, can’t really afford it anyway.
prole@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Because most of the people complaining, I imagine, live in the US.
Soulfulginger@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What do you even mean by this? Those issues are important, but familial hypercholemia also affects 34 million people. A treatment like this would be helpful for people across all classes
daftwerder@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I think what they’re getting at is that most people wouldn’t be able to afford this treatment.
Kalkaline@leminal.space 7 months ago
This is a problem now, especially in America where people avoid going to the doctor even though they’re pretty sure it’s cancer, but they are out of a job right now and have no idea how they would be able to afford treatment or the time off from work.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 7 months ago
The solution could be something else than stopping research maybe?
Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well that’s a dumb position to take since nearly every technology is only for the rich when it was invented
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
The argument isn’t to not develop these things, the argument is to not let rich people become immortal while everyone else stays mortal, but spread the good among everyone.
Oderus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s basically the plot to Altered Carbon. Rich can afford new bodies, poor people can’t so the rich live forever and the poor die yound.
teft@startrek.website 7 months ago
Have you seen the documentary Altered Carbon? It covers this scenario.
pikmeir@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Great show. It’s a shame we never ever got another season.
Hardeehar@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If they ever do a second season, I’d love it if they refrained from trying to shoehorn in any radical changes.
CurbsTickle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They did a second season, but there were three books.
Excellent series
Grass@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Was that the one with a japanese guy in a white body that pronounces his own name like an American?
5C5C5C@programming.dev 7 months ago
That’s explained by the muscle memory of the sleeve that he’s in. A mouth that has only practiced pronouncing American English will not have the neural pathways to pronounce words in a Japanese way. The consciousness and memories transfer but the sleeve doesn’t change.
It’s a convenient plot device but also it fits the narrative cleanly.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 7 months ago
I love this. The somehow nuanced yet obvious humor that picks up on how extremists call pure facts of fiction documentaries.
I’m going to start calling everything a documentary from now on.