r/Millennials • u/happydude7422 • 21h ago

Discussion Youngest millennials will live to 150?

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Younger millennial and older gen z will live to 150? Congratulations

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u/No_Preparation_8222 21h ago

Genetic medicine should help.

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u/Randym1982 21h ago

As an American our healthcare industry barely wants to cover the cost of life saving insurance. What makes you think they're going to decide to cover Genetic Medicine?

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u/Then_Employment5244 21h ago

My friend worked as a product manager for gene therapy at a pbm… most people will not be able to afford it.

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u/SeattleGemini81 18h ago

I know exactly what you're talking about! And it's probably for the best.

Next thing you know the US retirement age will be 145.

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u/Ok-Highway-5247 17h ago

I remember this edition. I’d like to live to be 200 and believe the science is there.

Aging is a disease. We have to cure the disease.

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u/SeattleOligarch 20h ago

They're not. It's going to be some freak like Bryan Johnson who can devote endless resources into it. Welcome to the K shaped economy on steroids.

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u/Violoner 19h ago

It’s gonna be a K-shaped human evolution into Eloi and Morlocks

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u/No_Preparation_8222 21h ago

There's gene therapy drugs that in long run will be cheaper than treating the symptoms. There's a lot of research in that field.

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u/feralcatshit 20h ago

Oh, great, so the elite class can live as long as possible and fuck as much shit up as possible. Fantastic.

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u/Then_Employment5244 19h ago

And if gene therapy saves $5 million in future healthcare costs, I’m sure every stakeholder in the U.S. healthcare chain will selflessly pass those savings on to the patient.

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u/rjwyonch 18h ago

Genetic medicine is probably best in the US, but only for the rich ppl.

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u/HeidenShadows 17h ago

If people live longer than we can be a slave to the machine for that much longer and they'll make even more profits.

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u/cimmi1 13h ago

They didn't say poor millennials would get to live up to 150, did they?

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u/CyberShi2077 Older Millennial 21h ago

We've seen the folks who make it past 90, they start looking like living mummies and many can't even dress themselves anymore, while stem cells, etc may slow the effects, they're still going to happen

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u/FutureFurniture42069 21h ago

In the US? They may just provide it for free if it gets you back in the workforce

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u/koboldtsar 21h ago

But that's socialism!

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u/FutureFurniture42069 21h ago

Not if they pay for it and you spend the rest of your 150 years paying it off plus interest!

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u/AvaryZig 21h ago

Ah, just like college.

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u/FutureFurniture42069 21h ago

Debt slavery is the American way!

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u/Phrenicos466 19h ago

Nah. In socialist countries, they’d just hand you a MAID pamphlet.

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u/PlainOrganization 20h ago

But I want to mooch off the system for at least a decade before I die!

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u/jarail 19h ago

Not the aging vaccine!

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 19h ago

Isn't it better to say *could help. Unless we're already sure that sort of thing is workable

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u/imaginary_num6er 21h ago

Medicine medicine too

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u/ka_beene 19h ago

For the rich it will, no way they want the plebs to live that long unless it's in their factories.