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Extending human lifespan is the solution. Think about this.
by meeper16 11y ago
Extending human lifespan is the solution. Think about this.
- adrianN 11y agoIf the number of people who save enough money for retirement is any indication, people don't even care about their future selves.
- meeper16 11y agoExactly. If people lived for 10,000 years, thier entire outlook on climate change would change. Another reason companies like Google, Craig Venter and Genentech are working on extending human lifespan via researchers like Cynthia Kenyon and CalicoLabs.
- adrianN 11y agoNo, exactly not. Right now people don't care about their financial situation forty years in the future. They also fuck up their future health with alcohol, tobacco and unhealthy food. What makes you think that they will care what happens with the ecosystem in a hundred years if they don't care whether they get cancer in thirty?
- chopin 11y agoYou can predict what happens to your savings forty years in the future? Take eg. a person who had savings from twenty years in 1914's Germany. It would have all gone 10 years later. Likewise when you had savings in stocks in 1929. It took almost 30 years to recover.
- adrianN 11y agoYou can predict it about as well as you can predict the climate I would say.
- SkyMarshal 11y agoIncreasing concentration of wealth makes that increasingly difficult for more and more people. At least some of the savings shortfall isn't by choice.