Because anti-aging drugs are likely to be highly expensive they may well be available to only the richest, leading to huge differences in life span both across and within nations.
"In Africa we can't even agree how to allow people to make drugs available more cheaply when it comes to AIDS, so we have almost no chance of doing it with anti-aging therapies," said Professor Tuljapurkar.
For a revealing glimpse into a possible quasi-immortalist "gerontocratic" society, I recommend Bruce Sterling's "Holy Fire."
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