Submitted by johnwayne2413 t3_10bj8km in technology
saiyaniam t1_j4b5bir wrote
Reply to comment by Grey___Goo_MH in Scientists Have Reached a Key Milestone in Learning How to Reverse Aging | Time by johnwayne2413
One way to think of it, is the general public would have a lot less worry about their family getting old and dying, the freedom of mind that would give can not be overstated.
And most people get more knowledgeable with age, that can only help our current situation.
The billionaires or "elite" won't go away even without no death. It's always been this way, and nothing has changed in 100's of thousands of years. It's always been like this. We're apes we have hierarchy.
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Living longer could change society for the better. A massive ammount of our issues stem from our short lives where you only get a small chance to get things right.
HeavensCriedBlood t1_j4b8b13 wrote
That’s assuming the general public would get access to this, which I’m not at all convinced that will be the case.
yowzees t1_j4bi4ff wrote
Companies want to make money, making this accessible to everyone will make them more of it
whiskers256 t1_j4ca6jk wrote
And not having their workforce be constantly sick would make Delta and Southwest a bunch of money, you don't see them lobbying AGAINST the plague, tho
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prozacandcoffee t1_j4cliu1 wrote
Worker productivity is NOT the problem.
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AriChow t1_j4dawm9 wrote
with an analysis like that, your username certainly checks out
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hunterseeker1 t1_j4d6tj5 wrote
Excellent point. Testosterone therapy can cost thousands a month and that’s just one super basic example. We can’t even price insulin in a way that makes it accessible to everyone, why on earth would anyone think a youth drug would cost lest than a few hundred thousand dollars per treatment?
BoxEngine t1_j4bs948 wrote
Also the potential to cause exponential population growth 😬
saiyaniam t1_j4bu4hy wrote
Yeah. Thats an issue.
I do think it's an issue that could be worked out before it becomes a problem tho.
Most of the population problem is resource management rather than space or waste. I think we're on the edge of sorting out a lot of the waste issues with renewable energy development and waste processing.
Grey___Goo_MH t1_j4b85uf wrote
Ah yes all the better to get to 10 billion humans just too eat everything and pollute the world that much faster
Human immortality sounds peachy as the world burns
What a joke
saiyaniam t1_j4bbki6 wrote
And the other option is we carry on as normal making the same mistakes generation after generation. The only way we are getting out of our current ditch is with some radical change.
One of the main reasons governments pollute is because the population lets them. Old people often vote more. Unfortunately they are ofcourse old, so they vote like old people, rather than healthy people with a 100 years or more life experience
Grey___Goo_MH t1_j4bcn72 wrote
What a joke
saiyaniam t1_j4bd0bv wrote
It's not a joke, old people literally vote more than younger people. Thats why Young people often get fucked. Young people are too busy living in their youth to vote for their future.
This is not my opinion, it's what actually happens.
You get older people who are physically Young, then you shift the voting power.
Grey___Goo_MH t1_j4be364 wrote
So immortal old people will sway the vote too stop pollution
What a joke
Your high
saiyaniam t1_j4bfk0o wrote
Yes, because it's now in their lifetime, it's now in their best interests.
The reason old people vote conservative or mostly for their own security is because they are weak and frail. They vote in their best interests.
If they were 20 physically again they would vote for ideas and concepts that align with their physicality. They would no longer vote like a scared old frail person.
That brings the voting numbers more inline with people who are active in life, and actually have a future even if they were 100.
Grey___Goo_MH t1_j4bg6rq wrote
You believe some truly stupid hopium
Conservatives care about their wealth
In your vision of society no one dies and all these old people consume forever what absolute nonsense thinking they would realize the error of their ways and vote for a sustainable future… immortal old people is not sustainable
No they will vote in favor of money as all conservatives do pulling the ladder up on newer generations
Again what a massive joke
saiyaniam t1_j4bhbab wrote
They care about wealth because they have little health.
Rosieforthewin t1_j4c794k wrote
People don't accumulate massive weather holdings just to save up for later medical expenses or act responsibly. Not every single elderly person is frail. Look at the makeup of our own government, most of them are over 80. Humans hoard wealth because it is a lifelong obsession rooted in our basest instincts.
saiyaniam t1_j4ca9gq wrote
They acually do.
The drive to gain financial wealth for the majority is to compensate for age.
Of course there are exceptions to the rule, but we're not talking about individuals, we're talking about a mass of people.
conscsness t1_j4dlpc3 wrote
Please do your self a favour and read. Claiming that it has been like that and nothing has changed in 100’s of thousands of years is a very wrong claim.
Not all hunter gatherers expressed their social structure through hierarchy. Anarchy existed and was possible for thousands of years.
sperris t1_j4ebw8j wrote
How much slower would social change happen? If we still had much of the population from the 1800s. We’d possibly still have segregated schools. There would still be laws against miscegenation. Women voting? Not so sure.
Older people may be knowledgeable. But they bring an awful lot of baggage with them.
Snibes1 t1_j4efio0 wrote
This is something I hadn’t thought of. I was still trying to internalize the terror I felt when I thought of rich, powerful people getting early access to this stuff far before anyone else can afford to get it.
psychotronic_mess t1_j4em0ai wrote
It was a lot easier to “respect your elders” when they used to do the respectable thing and die at the age of 50.
La_Adrock t1_j4k5u5p wrote
I guess we should all just die then
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