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Rich People Are Freezing Themselves to Stay Wealthy Forever
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- helsinkiandrew 2y agohttps://archive.ph/BH8bo https://archive.ph/BH8bo
- raverbashing 2y agoUntil it's proven that one of those people can be relived (proof by doing it), I stand by the opinion that such ventures are nothing but a very expensive grift
- malux85 2y agoI agree with you, but hey, money is useless to you after you die, so if you’re super wealthy why not spend 0.001% of your wealth on something with a very small but non-zero chance of working
- moralestapia 2y agoFrom this point of view and, I guess, when you're close to death, it makes complete sense.
- oceanplexian 2y agoWhat if there’s a chance that you are supposed to die as a part of a larger meaning or purpose, but you screw it up? Or you get mind uploaded to some dystopian video game. It could cut both ways.
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- JohnFen 2y agoI guess, but something seems wrong with just setting a bunch of money on fire even if you have more than enough to spare. I couldn't avoid thinking of all the better and more certain uses that money could go to.
- 999900000999 2y agoI'd be impressed if they could even revive a mouse. I can imagine rich people living past 100, maybe even 130, but you have to be pretty narcissistic to think you'll be able to cryogenically freeze yourself and be revived 500 years later.
- TylerLives 2y agoEven if the chances are low, it's still better than the alternative.
- jondwillis 2y agoDebatable.
- unsupp0rted 2y agoWhat are the cons?
- FooBarBizBazz 2y agoYou are ripped out of blissful union with the Universe and thrust back into the world of flesh and suffering? (As a billionaire though.)
- unsupp0rted 2y agoEasy solution there
- polski-g 2y agoYou are awakened in 1000 years and tortured for eternity by CyberGPT 1000.
- pfdietz 2y agoMaking it easy for Roko's Basilisk.
- beardyw 2y agoI wonder when is the right time to do it? Probably in your early 20s. I expect if any of them are revived they will be the decrepit state they were in before, though almost certainly worse.
- freilanzer 2y agoNot if aging can be reversed in 100 years.
- b3ing 2y agoThen they find out their 40 descendants don't want to give back any money and are forced to work 900yrs cleaning toilets to pay off that reverse aging, only to end up dying of cancer, because they aren't immortal.
- j0hnyl 2y agoAren't there trusts that can protect against this?
- toomuchtodo 2y agoYou're trusting the living to not overrule the dead. A trust is only as good as the system willing to enforce it.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoThat's why you leave your kids peppercorns in your will
- vidarh 2y agoYou might enjoy reading Transmetropolitan - it's a comic where one of the aspects of the future it is set in is that people who are revived are pretty much unwanted nuisances that usually end up with severe mental problems. They do get nice new bodies, though.
- tipiirai 2y agoThese poor people don’t understand the wonders of YOLO
- snvzz 2y agoOr they do understand very well, and thus why they freeze themselves.
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- Borrible 2y agoBut, how do they freeze their socio-economic ecosystem?
- ctvo 2y agoAt least there's a last ditch source of preserved protein available when the dark times hit.
- DrNosferatu 2y agoGive me 11M$ and I'll freeze you pristinely for defrost at a later date of your convenience. -> Satisfaction guaranteed or you money back!
- DrNosferatu 2y agoThis topic would make a wonderful, wonderful (and quirky) tv series...
- solardev 2y agoThese would make cool museum pieces a few centuries later. "Back on Earth, ancient peoples determined status based on how big their number was in a spreadsheet. Some big number people thought they could achieve immortality through refrigeration, like mummies skiing into the afterlife. Historians believe this was likely a religious adaptation caused by widespread climate changes of the era."