re: Anti-aging breakthrough could increase human lifespan to 150

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Professor Sinclair said he hoped the pill would be available to the public within five years and cost the same each day as a cup of coffee.

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Great. Within five years, coffee is going to cost $23,000 per cup.

So who gets to tell the folks at 64 their retirement got pushed back 56 years

Does this mean I'm gonna have to work til I'm 120?

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I mean people live twice as long as they once did. I’m fine.

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While true, this latest development does not take into account work life and social life expectancy.

1. Age of retirement. In earlier time periods people died earlier due to things outside biological control. Famines, Wars, less sanitation, etc.

You probably might see a push for 80 to be the new retirement age. This will be an issue since during to biological realities you probably aren't going to produce the same level of results as you did when you're younger. Living longer does not automatically mean you will be immune to less cognitive function, health related issues. Etc.

And even if you retire. The system now has to pay what is effectively a full salary to someone who is no longer currently productive. Businesses dont get rich off of retired employees who no longer participate.

The private system only has 2 viable options, slash retirement to cut costs. Or cut down hiring to bare minimum. Guaranteeing you dont have enough workers later to make up differences and putting a large portion of your once productive population in poverty.

This is all great until Ceasar decides to spray down the other apes and they start getting smart and shite.

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GGGGGMILF

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fingers crossed.

So, you’re saying we’ve cured cancer?

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Economic systems would adapt, its what they do

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by not having children

which would stall progress, leading to a collapse

as Steve Jobs so eloquently said:

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

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Would need more specifics before you can factually make that statement

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Why do I need to make a factual statement about a claim that isnt factual to begin with?

This drug hasn't proved to make people live to 150 but I think it's safe to assume health maintenance would be greatly improved if your body can regenerate itself.