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They’re the only ones who would be able to afford it.

At the moment it's not possible for anyone. If tech cracks it it would likely become affordable like most technology.

If we’re talking healthcare no, it doesn’t become affordable. None of the advanced medical tech is affordable.

You just define "advanced" as not "affordable" and your statement can be true forever!

Except of course, that's nonsense. mRNA vaccines are super advanced and available for a majority of humans. And tech drops in price if it's popular enough.

What about insulin?

So a few things:

- Insulin isn't crazy expensive outside the broken US system

- Let's assume it was, or some other medical advance was, so what? A few examples of something only very slowly going down in price doesn't change the fact that a lot of things DO go down in price or just exists at all due to basic science being done.

This is an argument against all technological progress.

Nope. Just technological progress in the context of a neo-feudal system.

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