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Originally Posted by Hesla
Let me put it in a different way to you. Would it not be better for drug companies if people lived longer and therefore were more likely to need more drugs as the got older ? I have a feeling that wiping out cancer (as much as that isn't possible) would increase the revenues gained by drug companies due to the old age diseases like Hypertension, heart disease and cholesterol problems.
I posed that question to my buddy when he said the same thing as you and it got him to switch his tune.
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Thats truly an outstanding point, well done.
People forget we are naturally meant to live only 30-40yrs, and its only very recent (a fraction of our existence) that we've doubled that. Old age is where the big money maker is in pharms, old people are very very expensive to keep alive and treat.
Imagine when we start living over 100yrs without much difficulty, we'll always be facing new issues in treatments and drugs to keep us going that long, and I have a sneaking suspicion the biggest barrier to keeping us alive for centuries or more will be human brain degeneration and how to beat that, we'll have the abilities to replace organs without much fuss eventually, but the brain, not sure how we'll figure that one out.
Oh well that's too far ahead to toy with now, but fun to imagine what issues they will be dealing with.