Is there a new "wave" of people getting to know CLL?

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Quote from: O_99 on September 07, 2020, 06:05:34 PM
More people getting LL done will result to an increase in prices accross the board. So it's like with those situations that you say.. be careful what you wish for.
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Bro, if more people have this procedure it will bring the cost down. Basic econ 101.
Although, there will be a risk of doctors not qualified performing this procedures and making mistakes.

Also, I don’t think it’s necessarily a good thing for short people if this becomes too prevalent and acceptable which would mean people will be willing to have this done. Average height and tall people will be more willing to have this done to get even taller.
The prevalence will ultimately result two things:
1. it will make it even less acceptable to be short
2. push up the boundary for average height

None of them good for short people (even with surgery as we will always be playing catch up)

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The cost of this surgery will essentially make those two things non factors, at least for 100 years and no new tech. 99.99% of short people won't want to consider doing this, and for the 0.01% that do want this99% can't afford it or never make the final step to doing it.

We will be fine. The average height will stay the same, and the acceptance won't go down because of this surgery, but more because of other lifestyle and social media changes

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Quote from: LON-next on September 08, 2020, 12:56:43 PMBro, if more people have this procedure it will bring the cost down. Basic econ 101.
Although, there will be a risk of doctors not qualified performing this procedures and making mistakes.

Also, I don’t think it’s necessarily a good thing for short people if this becomes too prevalent and acceptable which would mean people will be willing to have this done. Average height and tall people will be more willing to have this done to get even taller.
The prevalence will ultimately result two things:
1. it will make it even less acceptable to be short
2. push up the boundary for average height

None of them good for short people (even with surgery as we will always be playing catch up)

If demand goes up, price will eventually increase, open a book.

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Quote from: LON-next on September 08, 2020, 12:56:43 PMBro, if more people have this procedure it will bring the cost down. Basic econ 101.
Although, there will be a risk of doctors not qualified performing this procedures and making mistakes.

Also, I don’t think it’s necessarily a good thing for short people if this becomes too prevalent and acceptable which would mean people will be willing to have this done. Average height and tall people will be more willing to have this done to get even taller.
The prevalence will ultimately result two things:
1. it will make it even less acceptable to be short
2. push up the boundary for average height

None of them good for short people (even with surgery as we will always be playing catch up)

Height is not a benefit if you are very tall.
So no, a tall guy who does LL won't look better but most of the times worse after that.

LL is only for short and average height men (not even women except we talk for less that 5ft ones).
Anyone else have only drawbacks from it.

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Quote from: Body Builder on September 08, 2020, 01:51:36 PMHeight is not a benefit if you are very tall.
So no, a tall guy who does LL won't look better but most of the times worse after that.

+1.
Being already very tall and doing LL is not smart move.
Unless you want to be a professional Basketball player or Strongman..

Oh wait, you won't be able to do any of these two professionally after the surgery.
There is a price to pay and it's not worth it.

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Quote from: O_99 on September 08, 2020, 01:19:25 PMIf demand goes up, price will eventually increase, open a book.

You misunderstood, or maybe I was too general.

Higher demand = higher supply

However, there will come a point where even new wave of higher demand<supply

as a lot of mediocre Orthopedic doctors will jump at the chance to make extra money and will offer this, in addition to their normal practice. They don’t have to even give up their normal practice and can just add this to the list of services they already offer.

When supply outstrips demand the price will naturally decrease. By how much and what rate, depends.

So you’re right, if demand increases but supply remains same then price will increase.
But that’s not what I meant, as I foresee far more doctors/surgeons offering these procedures in the future on the wave of its new found popularity.

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Quote from: LON-next on September 08, 2020, 02:22:09 PMYou misunderstood, or maybe I was too general.

Higher demand = higher supply

However, there will come a point where even new wave of higher demand<supply (1)

as a lot of mediocre Orthopedic doctors will jump at the chance to make extra money and will offer this, in addition to their normal practice. They don’t have to even give up their normal practice and can just add this to the list of services they already offer.

When supply outstrips demand the price will naturally decrease. By how much and what rate, depends.

So you’re right, if demand increases but supply remains same then price will increase.
But that’s not what I meant, as I foresee far more doctors/surgeons offering these procedures in the future on the wave of its new found popularity. (2)

(1) We don't know for sure that "supply will outstrip demand". Plastic surgery sector is a similar example, consider that during the previous decade, even with its growing popularity, the increase of the number of surgeons wasn't enough to keep up and the price still went up. Keep also in mind that wealth inequality is expected to rise during this decade.

(2) Even if that happens, and the balance of supply and demand shift; which is possible but unlikely, the doctors that offer stryde and are/will be the ones worth going, Giotikas, Lee, Mahboubian, etc. will be more expensive. Just like Paley is now. Grands more expensive than others, and he's getting loads of patients, because people want to have the surgery with him, meanwhile cheaper "worse" surgeons stay at 2digits.

If mediocre, incompetent doctors without experience jump into the game offering relatively cheap procedures happens, it's meaningless.