I think I worded that unclearly, and we pretty much agree. What I meant was that hopefully the costs of healing a bunch of people will be so much lower in the f

I think I worded that unclearly, and we pretty much agree. What I meant was that hopefully the costs of healing a bunch of people will be so much lower in the future that people won't see any reason not to thaw out some frozen folks who would once have been considered terminally ill, even if there were no financial incentive to do so. Obviously I hope that everybody who gets frozen also has sizable long-term investments which work out well and make them loads of money, and I find that the most likely scenario, but I'd rather not depend entirely on it. Crazy black swan events have been known to wreck even really good plans. (This is also the thing that appeals to me about the plans for building enormous tanks that can keep their occupants cold for prolonged periods without maintenance, in case something goes badly wrong for a while.) You make some really interesting points about scaling. Cryonics could aggregate together demand for cures to rare problems, which would change the economic incentives for medical R&D. I hadn't thought of that, but you're right.