money can buy you doctors but it can’t buy you health, money really can’t buy you love either even if it can sometimes buy you a convincing simulation, money can’t make you right but it can help people give you the benefit of the doubt.
raginrayguns said: hmm yeah money can’t buy you health but in a certain sense it is possible to get rich enough to buy health…. like you have to create wealth that supports more advanced medicine than currently exists. It’s a bit like saving for retirement but on a trillion dollar scale I guess. I don’t think anyone’s ever done itSergey Brin’s $2 Billion Quest To Tackle Parkinson’s, Bipolar Disorder And Now Autism
Sergey Brin maybe?
Not enough diseases. Unless he has some genetic predisposition to parkinsons or something… I mean it’s possible to spend so much money that you end up developing a treatment for a disease that you personally get after retirement. Or I suppose a preventative treatment, though then we’ll never know.
yeah he has a personal stake in it:
Brin has one of the most common Parkinson’s risk mutations, in a gene called LRRK2, and he’s been a heavy funder of research for years.