Let’s be real, the dude is a total weirdo and comes off as extremely out of touch and narcissistic.
Most people are not going to like you if you use your large fortune expressly to pursue your own health and immortality as your primary goal, it is literally a hated trope.
And actually I think it's normal to have a reaction like this in response. Or at least understandable.
Rich dude spends loads of money using his access to new treatments to extend his life, wasting millions on useless treatments that nobody else can afford while some die because they can't afford insulin, only for him to get an incurable disease that may even be due to the untested shit he has been doing? Of course that's going to feel poetic. Of course those with chronic diseases who are suffering, and maybe even dying, despite the existence of a cure that they can simply never afford, are going to feel a sense of guilty satisfaction.
It's not even about jealousy imo. It feels like it's more like a sense of injustice/justice, imo.
Yes, because it’s his fault that the American medical system is broken. If he donated the $2 million he used for his longevity then the medical system would be fixed
It's not just American. Everywhere around the world there's expensive treatments people can't afford for medical issues. Universal healthcare doesn't cover treatments that cost too much, leaving people to try gather money for it themselves.
This experience is a worldwide phenomenon. It's just more common in the USA than other developed nations, but definitely not more common than in the poorest nations.
Note: I'm not from the USA, I'm from a country with universal healthcare, and I still understand why there'll be some satisfaction in this.
Edit: For example, Cerliponase alfa, Trastuzumab deruxtecan, Olipudase alfa, TA809, Pralsetinib, Daraxonrasib, Donanemab, and lecanemab. All life changing, many of them life saving, some of them almost a certain cure and death prevention. All of them unavailable on the NHS.
In NZ, Eculizumab, crovalimab, iptacopan-type complement inhibitors, are not funded despite being incredible drugs, the same is true for many others.
In Aus, Futibatinib/Lytgobi are not prescribed despite being a lifesaving cancer treatment, again not isolated examples.
In Canada, Belantamab mafodotin combination (Blenrep regimen) is not prescribed due to cost. I could go on forever.
The point is not what could be fixed, but simply that there's a feeling of injustice when people see him spend so much on unproven treatments that could be making him sick. Like he's taking his health for granted, being a guinea pig. A gamble, when they're facing certain death because they can't afford a sure treatment. Others just feel like he's out of touch and kinda insane/eccentric, and they get a bad vibe from him. It doesn't have to be rational.
Most people are not going to like you if you use your large fortune expressly to pursue your own health and immortality as your primary goal, it is literally a hated trope.
Why? Are people too stupid to realize that on his journey he might discover something interesting that will help them?
I dont think you are going to understand anyways but lets put it this way, if you were alive 300 years ago you'd be the guy running around yelling about the devil and wanting to burn anyone found dissecting bodies at the stake.
No, I don’t think this person is the devil for spending outsized resources on himself. I just think he’s a narcissist. I would’ve had the same criticism 300 yrs ago and people did criticize the wealthy for greed at that time.
If you were alive 300 yrs ago you’d be “shining the shoes” of someone who is probably 1,000x wealthier than you, to put it in PG terms…
Actually yes you need to publish to “do science,” or contribute to science.
What do you think science even is? It quite literally revolves around publishing
I can publish whatever I want on a website, that doesn’t make it science.
Science has to have a hypothesis and replicable experiments to be considered meaningful.
It also typically needs to have results published in a peer reviewed journal.
Just publishing data is actually not science.
Please read more about what science is
Its not just his own health though from what I'm understanding. If he's using himself as an experiment for longevity science then that's not pure selfishness.
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u/_Stylite Jul 06 '26
Let’s be real, the dude is a total weirdo and comes off as extremely out of touch and narcissistic.
Most people are not going to like you if you use your large fortune expressly to pursue your own health and immortality as your primary goal, it is literally a hated trope.