Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Ben Murnane
“I was born with a rare genetic disease called Fanconi anemia (FA), which kills too many people far too young. The life expectancy when I was growing up in the 1990s was 22. With FA, your bone marrow fails, and your body can’t produce new blood cells in order to keep you alive. … In 2001, I became the first person in Ireland to undergo a new type of bone marrow transplant involving the immunosuppressant drug fludarabine. I was 16 years old. My early years living with low life expectancy — and being saved by modern technology and medical science — gave me a lifelong interest in how we extend life expectancy more broadly, and in innovation. … Unfortunately, today, politicians on both the left and right are more interested in restricting and controlling innovation than in encouraging its potential.” (06/20/24)
https://fee.org/articles/why-politicians-need-to-stop-getting-in-the-way-of-technological-progress/