A new treatment that blocks an aging-related protein restored lost cartilage in old mice and helped prevent arthritis after knee injuries. Human cartilage samples showed similar signs of regeneration, raising hopes for a future drug that could repair joints instead of replacing them.
What’s the maximum? About 120?
Imagine having 100 or more healthy years. That seems like sci-fi, but may be possible one day still.
It will also mean working until you’re 100 before the national pension kicks in unfortunately lol
Around 120 is maximum yes. I think some french woman might have gotten near 130 but I forget.
Unless you believe the bible, in which case hundreds and hundreds of years. And woman was made from man’s rib. Makes sense.
Ngl, you had me in the first half…
They nearly had me in the first quarter, but now I no longer believe I’ll ever see it. Not enough young people are born. My generation is enough to support the current old people, but there won’t be enough people to support my generation.
Are there enough people at the current system where the top 1% get 99% of the resources? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But there will 100% be enough people to keep the basics going
We are thousands of times more efficient than we were a couple hundred years ago.
The top 1% don’t get 99% of the resources, they get 99% of imaginary wealth. It can’t be sold off en masse.
Ergo, we don’t have a magical extra 100x increase in actual goods and other physical resources per person coming if we just kill the 1%. Things could be distributed much more fairly for sure, but it’s not as simple as “these few people own everything so if they’re gone, everyone else is a millionaire”.
Anyway, much of the “basics” is going to be in person care work with an aging society. We haven’t handed that off to AI yet, nor medicine, but once that’s happened then yes we can actually handle social safety nets in an aging society. Right now the solution they’re going for is a constant increase in retirement age to keep the tax revenue high enough to pay for retired people’s needs.