This "let's solve human health with tech!" bullshyt ignores that 90% of early deaths right now have to do with poverty and inequality, not the need for new medical tech. But the rich aren't that interested in solving inequality, so they aim for medical moonshots instead.
Look at what happened with Covid. Get the rich people scared, and they're suddenly willing to spend trillions upon trillions and undergo any degree of economic disruption in order to stop it. But when it comes to TB, or diarrheal diseases, or childhood fevers, or lung issues due to pollution, each of which kill millions of people a year? Nah, those are poor people diseases, we have a limited budget for that shyt.
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