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Seems more likely that we create an immortality drug than we create a social governance scheme that doesn’t allow billionaires to very easily grow their wealth
by fauxpause_ 3y ago
Seems more likely that we create an immortality drug than we create a social governance scheme that doesn’t allow billionaires to very easily grow their wealth at society’s expense.
- naasking 3y agoSure, but the immortality drug will have to lead to social change. Every problem is also an opportunity.
- fauxpause_ 3y agoWe already have a problem and an opportunity to fix it. A proposal that makes this problem worse does not seem likely to make the opportunity easier to take advantage of.
- naasking 3y agoI disagree. A bad situation can be ignored, a catastrophic situation cannot. This inevitably leads to revolutions.
- fauxpause_ 3y agoAnd that is why the world no longer has any long lasting oppressive regimes. Oh wait…
- naasking 3y agoActually we don't. Of course we probably have different conceptions of what's considered "long lasting" in terms of civilizations, and even what constitutes "oppressive" to a catastrophic level, which was the context I specified.