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Though I would very much like to live a lot longer, the society I would live in would be somewhat suckier because of it. The consequences have been extensively
by gumby 3y ago
Though I would very much like to live a lot longer, the society I would live in would be somewhat suckier because of it. The consequences have been extensively explored in the literature for the last 3,500 years at least.
Failing that, making QoL a square wave would be a massive win.
- etothepii 3y agoWould they duck for those of us alive today? We (those of us alive today) would like be the absolute masters of the universe.
- gumby 3y agoWell, from literature there’s always the Tithonus problem (hence my point about the square wave), plus boredom or, if few have immortality, loneliness. But what I was really thinking was widespread longevity, at least among the wealthy (basically this exists today in all societies): without death things don’t change. Imagine if bezos or musk or Charles Koch, or Murdoch or Xi could live to 150. Imagine if Reagan had lived for six presidential terms…shudder. There would be less “creative destruction” as the old power structures would drag on, and less progress happening. A stagnant, static society seems pretty sucky to me.