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nmfisher on June 26, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on be...

> How can people like Peter Thiel et al not feel disgusting spending a fortune on personal longevity when there is still starvation and hunger killing children every day?

Probably because starvation is almost never an economic problem solvable with money.

morelisp on June 26, 2020 [–]

Child malnutrition in Thiel's home countries (Germany, US, or New Zealand) is 100% solvable with money, maybe even entirely with his personal money.

emteycz on June 26, 2020 | [–]

Why is he responsible? I thought we pay taxes to the government for that.

morelisp on July 1, 2020 | | [–]

Indeed, are there no more prisons or workhouses?

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