[davidgerard]

You're answering the headline, but not the article text:

> But over the past two decades, deaths attributed to inequality, isolation, and addiction have risen for both men and women without a college education in the US. In particular, as Princeton economists revealed today, white middle-aged men with a high school education or less, hit disproportionately by the Great Recession, are dying of despair. Well-heeled techies obsessed with life extension have little to say about these problems, suggesting a grim blind spot: Are they really trying to extend everyone’s lives? Or just those of people already doing great?

The article's thesis is: People are dying right now in the world's richest third-world country of easily-preventable things, and this is being ignored.

[orangecat]

In particular, as Princeton economists revealed today, white middle-aged men

Note "middle-aged". Their productive working lives are at least half over, and rightly or wrongly they don't believe it's feasible to start over in a new profession. Curing aging would put them on the same footing as 20 year olds.

Are they really trying to extend everyone’s lives? Or just those of people already doing great?

Are cell phones for everyone, or just rich businessmen?