As you have probably seen, Liz Parrish, the CEO of BioViva has done an AMA where she explains the genetic therapy that she is so sure in that she has agreed to be the first human test subject of it. The gene therapy has shown very good promise in rats, and if the results are even close to similar in humans:

If the results are good we hope to have something to the general public, that is cost acceptable, in 3-5 years

Full AMA here: https://archive.is/MXcsa

On top of that another news has appeared just yesterday on other gene therapies: https://archive.is/47EvW

We've seen many many news on this in the last year as more and more companies are investing huge amount of money into anti-aging treatments and their funds are increasing thanks to very rich people pumping money into it because they don't want to die.

Now, my question is: what will this mean for women and for our own interactions with them? If women (who are notorious to be spending insane amounts of money on their aesthetics even if they have to go into debt for it) and rich men can keep their looks into their old age, where is that gonna leave normal men who can't (or don't want to) pay tenths of thousands of dollars for these treatments? It's fairly obvious by now that the life of the beta men has been becoming harder and harder in the last decades, but they still had a chance once women hit the wall and had to lower their expectations. But now?

On top of that, TRP, we SERIOUSLY need to have a discussion about the changes coming thanks to technology. The attitude I keep reading here is of ostriches putting their heads under the sand and waiting (hoping?) for the collapse of the society, and citing examples of the past of societies collapsing once women got more rights (Sandman is notorious for this), but the problem here is that with the extremely fast approaching automation (search Humans Need Not Apply on youtube), the very strongly pushed Basic Income (and it IS gonna happen, no government wants a full scale revolution when 50%+ of the population is unemployed and there is a clear solution to avoid it and continue pushing the consumerist-heavy capitalism even further) and other changes coming (cyborgization for example) it's not gonna happen. There will be no collapse (although I do think many men will retire from society once full scale VR is available) the society will continue on this path and this time liberalism will succeed in its ultimate goal.

And effectively there is nothing any of us can do to stop it, not when there is more than half of the population pushing for it and we're few.

So, how do we prepare for what's coming and thrive in this society changed faster and faster by the technology we're so reliant on?