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The rich would not get richer. They would stay alive and stick around until they got poorer and eventually died.
by ashray 13y ago
The rich would not get richer. They would stay alive and stick around until they got poorer and eventually died.
- tormeh 13y agoThat's not how capitalism works. Your earning potential increases with your capital, eventually making talent and effort negligible factors.
- WalterBright 13y agoThe first generation makes the fortune, the second generation spends it, the third starts over.
- Lockyy 13y agoWhat happens if that second generation never replaces the first?
- eli_gottlieb 13y ago"A witty saying proves nothing."
- stcredzero 13y agoIn Larry Niven's Known Space books, some of the rich stuck around so long that they became hyper bored and so decided to become super criminals. He has one such minor character who is a woman over two centuries old, with all of the experience and knowledge that entails, with the body of an 18 year old.
- X4 13y agoAsked a buddy who ain't that smart on what he would do, if he could live 300 years. He said: "I'd rob a bank, big time." I asked why he would do that and he said that he could give the money to a trustee and sit his time and become rich afterwards. So your story sounds legit to me. And I just asked for 300 years. Living 16.000 years like in the movie: "The man from Earth", was way out of his graspable zone. And he started arguing about god would kill you and so on...
- alanfalcon 13y agoWhen you rob a bank and get caught, they don't let you keep the money.
- stcredzero 13y agoTell your buddy to take a decade out of his life and become a NASCAR driver. Then take another decade to become a top-flight Bluegrass banjo player. I think those trump whatever life experience he'd get from robbing a bank.
- anentropic 13y agoaren't they already basically super criminals?
- mavdi 13y agoYou really haven't understood how this works