!Remindme in 10 years
That’s because you’re looking for direct, immediate, tangible impact to yourself personally - respectfully, that’s a rather shallow, self-focused view.
Tell me, in detail, how your health/life insurance premiums are calculated? Do you know that data from these companies, even in aggregate, isn’t being taken into consideration when they set process for your geographical location?
Certain data used to be off limits to governments, new law gets passed around major events that can change that. With the type of people that have gotten close to our have held power recently, do you want that data collected and in easy reach?
If you have the markers in your genes that predispose you to say alcoholism or drug addiction, would you want vodka companies to be able to ad target you?
Musk showed that billionaires can buy massive corporations at will and use them for their own agendas, do you want all that data accessible for musk or the next musk when one of those hipster-eugenics peddling natalist fascists decides they want a new project to “improve humanity” in their image?
Do you know, are there typically any scenarios where work with a geneticist at a hospital may be covered by insurance?