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sperris t1_j4ebw8j wrote

Reply to comment by saiyaniam in Scientists Have Reached a Key Milestone in Learning How to Reverse Aging | Time by johnwayne2413

How much slower would social change happen? If we still had much of the population from the 1800s. We’d possibly still have segregated schools. There would still be laws against miscegenation. Women voting? Not so sure.

Older people may be knowledgeable. But they bring an awful lot of baggage with them.

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Snibes1 t1_j4efio0 wrote

This is something I hadn’t thought of. I was still trying to internalize the terror I felt when I thought of rich, powerful people getting early access to this stuff far before anyone else can afford to get it.

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psychotronic_mess t1_j4em0ai wrote

It was a lot easier to “respect your elders” when they used to do the respectable thing and die at the age of 50.

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