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When the day comes that it becomes really real and everyone from now on gets to live for a few hundred years. But, not you. You are already too old for it to

When the day comes that it becomes really real and everyone from now on gets to live for a few hundred years. But, not you. You are already too old for it to work. Maybe if you led a much more healthy lifestyle. But, no. You get to grow progressively more decrepit while watching people younger than you not go through the same problems. Eventually you will die of it while they are still partying hard in their 80s and will continue to do so for two hundred more years. Good for them. Sucks to be you.

spywaregorilla 5y ago
> Eventually you will die of it while they are still partying hard in their 80s and will continue to do so for two hundred more years. Good for them. Sucks to be you. yeah, but you don't have to spend centuries toiling away as a slave for the Immortal Dictator
- after_care 5y ago
  I do wonder how an economic system would function if people worked for 50 years and then had 200+ years of retirement. Perhaps the production/consumption ratio will work out as automation/ai/robots increases labor productivity. Of course it’s wildly optimistic to hope for this outcome, and some sort of wage slave or indentured servitude arrangement is more likely for the masses.
  - spywaregorilla 5y ago
    Most people don't retire with any meaningful amount of savings. Presuming the government doesn't give you social security benefits if you're actually able bodied, you would just keep working and stay poor. The larger concern is compounding wealth inequality by the mega rich who never die and just continue to accumulate ownership of everything. And of course immortal dictators.
  - JamesBarney 5y ago
    With meaningful life extension you'd have to increase the number of years people worked. But most people would probably take the "you have to work an extra 100 years, but you get to live an extra 125" bargain.
- shepherdjerred 5y ago
  He prefers to be called President Bezos.

spywaregorilla 5y ago

> Eventually you will die of it while they are still partying hard in their 80s and will continue to do so for two hundred more years. Good for them. Sucks to be you. yeah, but you don't have to spend centuries toiling away as a slave for the Immortal Dictator

after_care 5y ago
I do wonder how an economic system would function if people worked for 50 years and then had 200+ years of retirement. Perhaps the production/consumption ratio will work out as automation/ai/robots increases labor productivity. Of course it’s wildly optimistic to hope for this outcome, and some sort of wage slave or indentured servitude arrangement is more likely for the masses.
- spywaregorilla 5y ago
  Most people don't retire with any meaningful amount of savings. Presuming the government doesn't give you social security benefits if you're actually able bodied, you would just keep working and stay poor. The larger concern is compounding wealth inequality by the mega rich who never die and just continue to accumulate ownership of everything. And of course immortal dictators.
- JamesBarney 5y ago
  With meaningful life extension you'd have to increase the number of years people worked. But most people would probably take the "you have to work an extra 100 years, but you get to live an extra 125" bargain.
shepherdjerred 5y ago
He prefers to be called President Bezos.