Opinion | This overlooked phenomenon is causing us all to age prematurely
As billionaires like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Pay-Pal’s Peter Thiel crush the competition in capitalism, they’re now investing their prize money on anti-aging advancements to defeat death itself.
Yet the values of rugged individualism that shape their research — peddling cellular rejuvenation, transfusions of young blood, and antiaging pharmaceuticals — only benefit an isolated few, further widening the social inequities that lead to premature aging and illness in everyone. Even Bezos.
While billionaires and scientific researchers alike continue to search for remedies that target the individual — from medical procedures and pharmaceuticals to specific changes in diet and exercise — their microscopes are missing the bigger picture.
