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People buying high end audio gear have disposable income and spend obscene amounts of money on their hobby, and yet they get at most mild ridicule. Old people wanting _not to die_ get hate.
How do people even get here?
I've been studying this topic ("hatred of life extension") for a few years now. I would say it is caused by thousands of years of cultural evolution during which the only guardrail we had to keep our sanity was acceptance and faith. There are interesting positive feedback loops for this set of beliefs, coming all the way from Genesis 3:24 and The Epic of Gilgamesh (which one was first?), plus more modern incarnations like all our vampire movies. This case of cultural resonance has nothing to degrade it because nobody has lived long enough to prove that life extension is a good or a bad thing, but acceptance of mortality is a cheap and effective remedy to existential dread.
People look at the rich and feel envy. In an attempt to displace that feeling, they tell themselves "I'm a good person, I don't prioritize money, I care about things that matter like community and art and the poor" and also "meanwhile those rich people are shallow and pathetic, all they care about is money".
This strategy allows the thinker to hate the rich ostensibly for morally acceptable reasons. It also makes them feel better about their own lack of wealth. People who think this way are often middle class or above; the poor are able to envy the rich without all this psychodrama.
It's one thing to have music of lower quality, it's another to be old and dying and watching someone who was born a century before you gifted with youth and vitality. It's not hard to envision that situation if the rich have access to anti-aging.
As such it is a scenario basically based off what science fiction says will happen when anti-aging is available. And people feeling that yes, that is what will happen - which spurs their envy.
The envy of this potential future is an expression of the envy of current disparities in income and power heightened by a fear that the future will make those disparities more unbearable and less fixable than they currently are.
If Zuckerberg has essentially doomed everyone else to death while he and his kin get to live on perpetually he's basically painted a giant target on his back that every one with 6 months to live on a totally curable terminal brain cancer diagnosis is going to want to hit.
I'm not too worried about this kind of scenario because I know that it's in their greater self interest to let us all have this technology.
Also, if the technology isn't too difficult to implement what will stop people from doing so? If you tell me at age 50 that there's a cure for aging you can bet I'll spend my remaining 30 years to find that cure, if not for me, than for rmy children and grand children.
Lots of people want to kill lots of different Billionaires, but billionaires ain't dropping like flies.
>very one with 6 months to live on a totally curable terminal brain cancer diagnosis is going to want to hit.
unless getting a terminal brain cancer makes people John Wick in the universe this movie is taking place in, I don't think that's how the plot will play out.
This of course is my reference to science fiction, people in relation to this particular subject have worries that are dystopia-fodder, which I have to admit may also be silly but will probably be closer to what will happen then betting it will work the same as the process that ended up giving everyone a personal computer.
So, no one can have nicers things than me?
If someone had a cure for your child's cancer in your hands and they gloated at you while saying "you no get" I'm pretty sure you're going to take whatever steps necessary to "get"
Thankfully, society in its majestic equality allows all people to establish or invest into startups. Total addressable market at $1M/month is much smaller than at $1k/month, which is still much smaller than at $100/month.
Assuming the expenses are low enough to still give the company a healthy and IMHO fair 20-50% profit margin at $1k/month or $100/month, it'd be dumb to price it at $1M/month. There would be thousands if not millions of companies offering this service - and a race to the bottom of the pricing.
Think about cars - companies are competing on lower prices and better features of these complex machines. There are many models for different kinds of buyers - not just a single option at $1M/month that'd allow the rich to move around.