>Nonetheless, many people believe that longevity enhancing therapies will only be available for the wealthy, and that this will be an important dynamic in the future. Inequality is something of a cultural fixation at the moment, and it is manufactured as a fantasy where it doesn't exist in reality. This is just another facet of the truth that most people don't really understand economics, either in the sense of predicting likely future changes, or in the sense of what is actually taking place in the world today.
Social elites sometimes value their inequality and eliteism more than they value economic productivity.
(Actually, this is a pretty fair explanation of the logic behind the whole neoliberal era, in which inequality has been radically widened while productivity growth has stagnated.)
Social elites sometimes value their inequality and eliteism more than they value economic productivity.
(Actually, this is a pretty fair explanation of the logic behind the whole neoliberal era, in which inequality has been radically widened while productivity growth has stagnated.)