So who will pay for your long healthy life? The default answer is: you will, by working longer. Any other answer has this problem: why is this magic source of funds not currently available to cover even our current shorter lifespans?
OK, so we've established that you have to continue working. Are you sure that you as a geriatric man on artificial life extension will be competitive with a younger guy who can go crazy and use the same tech to, say, never sleep - never mind that he'll die at 40? And even if we aren't talking extremes: you as a pill-supported walking corpse have to be ever vigilant of your own mortality. Someone younger can afford to take more risks.
Your argument is easily applied to all medical advancements, do you think we should stop using antibiotics? Vaccines? Maybe you should let the individuals determine what's best for themselves instead to trying to prescribe your strange anti capitalism ideology for them.
Anyway medical research is focused on giving us on better quality of life as we age, which is what people objectively value, not whatever you think they are trying to do.
> Anyway medical research is focused on giving us on better quality of life as we age
Polite correction: medical research is focussed on returns for those funding said research.
Treating Americans is definitely a cash-cow for Big Pharma, indeed if a potential new drug can't/won't make it past the FDA then it will likely be killed off regardless of what the rest of the world might want/need/approve.
Check out US healthcare spend per capita compared with everywhere else on the planet.
OK, so we've established that you have to continue working. Are you sure that you as a geriatric man on artificial life extension will be competitive with a younger guy who can go crazy and use the same tech to, say, never sleep - never mind that he'll die at 40? And even if we aren't talking extremes: you as a pill-supported walking corpse have to be ever vigilant of your own mortality. Someone younger can afford to take more risks.