15 ms·
Would you want that for them? The idea of immortal humans is extremely unappealing to me.
by paublyrne 7y ago
Would you want that for them? The idea of immortal humans is extremely unappealing to me.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoMay they live as long as they wish a happy and healthy life, and may they die when they are ready and have made the choice themselves.
- jacquesm 7y agoWhat will happen is that you will have a bunch of very rich centenarians who will own just about everything simply for having a couple of decades head start on the newcomers. The same thing is already happening today. Unless you want to cap wealth and property this is not going to end well. It's already at the point today where real estate and other relatively scarce resources are much more available to and owned by the wealthy who then use this to extract rent from the younger generations. Give those people another 80 years or so to do play the game and we will all end up in hock to them. You'll be born in debt to someone who was born a century or more before you.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- whatshisface 7y agoIf we're imagining a world with immortality why not imagine one with space colonies, or some other form of growth? The new people could get the new stuff, same as it's been since the end of feudalism.
- boring_twenties 7y agoI mean, if we're fantasizing we might as well have a post-scarcity society along the lines of Manna: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- malux85 7y agoHaving the option is better than not having it
- spraak 7y agoIt's weird that you'd be downvoted for expressing what you have dislike for. > The color blue makes me feel sad Downvoted! I love the color blue. Edit: and now I'm being downvoted for this observation. Maybe Alanis Morissette would say this is ironic