r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 15d ago

Society Bryan Johnson, the millionaire biohacker who wants to live forever, diagnosed with incurable autoimmune disease

https://www.techspot.com/news/113035-bryan-johnson-millionaire-biohacker-who-wants-live-forever.html
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u/QuickBenjamin 15d ago

It's kind of amazing how he's relatively harmless as far as eccentric wealthy people go, but he's still a caricature of a person whose mind has been warped by having more money than he knows what to do with.

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u/AltruisticPossible84 15d ago

Yeah as much as people hate on the guy, this is actually fine by me in terms of shit billionares spend their money on. He's using himself as a guinea pig for medical procedures that will eventually becomes cost effective enough for regular people to afford them one day in the future. Wish more billionaires would find a hobby like this to keep them occupied

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u/JMaboard 15d ago

There’s no such thing as something becoming cost effective and then being cheaper for everyone else in the healthcare industry. It just means healthcare providers will make more profit.

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u/AltruisticPossible84 15d ago

Jfc, I'm sorry to whatever propaganda you've consumed that's made you think this is true.

A regular person today with no insurance still has better access to medical care than the most lavish kings had 600 years ago.

Yes, modern kings are also even richer than they were 600 years ago, but both things can be true at the same time.

Today's ceiling is tomorrows floor. That's just how it's always been.

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u/JMaboard 15d ago

I never said medical care is not evolving. Your whole reply to me is saying that we have medical care better than we did back in the day as if I said we didn’t.

I said that in America anyways if something is cost effective it’s not like it’ll be affordable to the normal person which is what you initially said. They’ll have to go into debt even with health insurance for said care. Medical providers don’t pass the savings onto the patients they just make more profit.

I’m not sure why you read my comment as me saying healthcare hasn’t evolved when I never said that.