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Would you really want your parents to die, your loved ones, your family, your children, and yourself, all so you could have the satisfaction that at least rich
by ALittleLight 4y ago
Would you really want your parents to die, your loved ones, your family, your children, and yourself, all so you could have the satisfaction that at least rich people, and their loved ones, would suffer and die too?
- ben_w 4y agoMany people are fundamentally motivated by fairness, and knowing someone else is getting more than they seem to deserve can violate that. Schadenfreude is a thing. Myself, I think that longevity treatments are unlikely to remain unaffordable to the poor for very long after they are invented — even in a cynical world where the rich are greedy enough to try and keep it for themselves, old-age healthcare is really expensive, so societies which cause this to be cheap will outperform those that keep it for just the powerful.
- fleetwoodsnack 4y agoThe individual rich are irrelevant, and this is a mischaracterization of the sentiment. Elite capture under the parameter of current human lifespans is extant and difficult to counteract. It stands to reason those negative consequences associated with elite capture would only be exacerbated under longer lifespans. It’s simply an acknowledgment of a likely negative consequence.