I didn't know what Malthusianism is, so thank you for educating me on that topic. I can definitely assure you that I wasn't referring solely to overpopulation as the only problem to curing ageing. I AM mildly (and perhaps, based on the links you included, naively) worried about overpopulation several decades down the line but I don't have the stats nor the expertise to passionately argue in defence of this view.
I was more referring to the problems associated with commercializing the "anti-aging" drug. Making such a drug in the corporate funded environment of our biotech industry would certainly result in an extreme imbalance of the availability of the drug. So in a world where the balance of food supply, resources, income and power of influence is already impossibly and unfairly askew, it is very likely that the existence of the anti-death drug would be the final nail in the coffin of many impoverished populations. What chance would a smart, young African (who is already faced with overcoming hunger, poverty and lack of health care) have in a world where Americans and Germans, for example, have a near unlimited supply of food, money, influence... and now time.
I was more referring to the problems associated with commercializing the "anti-aging" drug. Making such a drug in the corporate funded environment of our biotech industry would certainly result in an extreme imbalance of the availability of the drug. So in a world where the balance of food supply, resources, income and power of influence is already impossibly and unfairly askew, it is very likely that the existence of the anti-death drug would be the final nail in the coffin of many impoverished populations. What chance would a smart, young African (who is already faced with overcoming hunger, poverty and lack of health care) have in a world where Americans and Germans, for example, have a near unlimited supply of food, money, influence... and now time.