• Soulfulginger@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    What do you even mean by this? Those issues are important, but familial hypercholemia also affects 34 million people. A treatment like this would be helpful for people across all classes

    • daftwerder@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      I think what they’re getting at is that most people wouldn’t be able to afford this treatment.

      • Kalkaline @leminal.space
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        11 months ago

        This is a problem now, especially in America where people avoid going to the doctor even though they’re pretty sure it’s cancer, but they are out of a job right now and have no idea how they would be able to afford treatment or the time off from work.

      • Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Well that’s a dumb position to take since nearly every technology is only for the rich when it was invented

        • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          11 months ago

          The argument isn’t to not develop these things, the argument is to not let rich people become immortal while everyone else stays mortal, but spread the good among everyone.