I feel we’re on the cusp of an eternal youth breakthrough in the next 30-50 years. Just gotta last and keep science funded. *Looks at the news* yeah… Maybe not. Last hope is that rich people want to live forever, but they’re not known for their generosity.

Do it for the narrative

*Eats first vitamin gummy*
“They sought to limit me with their lies.”
*Eats second vitamin gummy*
“But now I am become death,”
*Starts levitating. Eyes open as pure darkness.*
“the destroyer of worlds.”

Non-democratic/psudo-democratic socialism/communism: “You’re paying for this service whether you want it or not. There is no motivation to make a quality product.”

Democratic socialism/communism: “Well, only 60% of you care about this enough to vote. We’ll put some funds into it, but definitely not what it needs. And oh dang, everyone hates it now, guess we’ll defund it.”

Edit: I’m not disagreeing with OP. Capitalism sucks too. Socialism and Communism *can* suck. It depends on the governing body. There are good examples of all three economic systems working and bad examples of all three screwing people over. I’m anarchist and believe good systems will eventually fall to corrupt politicians if safeguards are not in place to prevent it, and there’s a bunch of sneaky intentional and unintentional loopholes to sneak in power grabs.