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If we could live a million years it would allow us to produce a better society by making ultra long investments. Looking at a century’s candlestick chart for a
by xwdv 6y ago
If we could live a million years it would allow us to produce a better society by making ultra long investments.
Looking at a century’s candlestick chart for a stock would be something like looking at a weekly chart today.
- treeman79 6y agoI would think society would stagnat. People in power would have time and a reason to fully solids it. Japan went through a few centuries were innovative wasn’t allowed. It was seen as a threat to the ruling class.
- grogenaut 6y agoBut was it stable? I don't know Japanese history very well. If it was stable (until upset by the outside) then it'd be a good example.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoJapan went through famine and social upheaval in the decades before they were forced to open up. Their economy was fundamentally broken and on the verge of collapse.
- grogenaut 6y agoso "no". thanks for the followup
- coldcode 6y agoI think suicides would go way up. People would get bored with life after a couple hundred years. If everyone lived that long life would stagnate into a boring grayness.
- chrisco255 6y agoHow do you know they would? Greenland sharks live for 300-500 years and they seem to enjoy eating fish well into old age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark
- jacquesm 6y agoThey're not sentient at our level. That makes it doable, if you are aware of being bored it is a totally different thing than if you are not.
- chrisco255 6y agoThankfully, I'll never get bored of making cheeky comments. ;-)
- xwdv 6y agoNo need to kill yourself, we would just come up with some way to delete sentience from our minds or something, so we become simpler, happier machines.
- jtsiskin 6y agoImagine the wealth inequality this would lead to