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by boxed 53 days ago
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.
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therobots927 53 days ago
What about insulin?
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boxed 52 days ago
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.

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