Annorax wrote:That is the endgame. Hell on Earth with our immortal "lords" making people work for peanuts while they get to be opulent hedonists. No way its going to be cheap and widely available.
Metformin, the drug under discussion, is
already cheap and widely available.
Also, the costs of aging on the healthcare system are utterly enormous. They might try and jack up costs in the US, where they don't have to pay for them, but the EU's healthcare systems are often social schemes in some way. Delay the body falling apart by 8 years, and
France gains millions if not billions of dollars each year.
Health insurance costs would also be cheaper (fewer busted kidneys to pay out on).
If you want something actually expensive, it might be gene therapy catering to each specific individual. That would be expensive. Any other enzyme or whatever can be grown using engineered bacteria and so probably won't cost much, or the cost would primarily be in R&D and not production.