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by kayoone 4575 days ago
Ive been thinking alot about the ethics of it and its really hard. Personally id love to live forever but i am not sure if any form of meaningful live extension is due within my generation (i am 30 now). Probably not. Would be kind of sad to be the last gen to have normal lifespans though. On the other hand dying from non natural causes in a world like that would be even more dramatic.
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rwmj 4575 days ago
You probably wouldn't want to be born into a world where no one dies. You'd have loads of old people with enormous wealth, and no incentive to give even a tiny bit of that to the young.

(And please don't say "taxes" ... How do you tax people who hold a massive insuperable block vote?)

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yardie 4575 days ago
With infinite life the entire concept of wealth changes then. At the moment most people work to better the lives of their offspring because that is how we handle mortality and immortality. You may not live forever but your genes and resources (money, property, photo albums) live on with your children and grandchildren.

With no reason to save I could do whatever I wanted. Walk all the way to Everest, swim the Atlantic, tell my boss to fuck off. As for wealth, I'd spend decades hacking into bank accounts, because why not? What are they going to do send me to prison?

If we could all be immortal it would kinda suck to be wealthy. No one would need your wealth, and if you they did you'd spend all your time trying to protect.

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qw 4575 days ago
> With no reason to save I could do whatever I wanted.

You still need to pay for food, clothes, housing etc. As a minimum you will have to sign contracts that bind you to a job for a minimum amount of time (probably years). Someone will have to "keep the wheels turning". You want someone to pick up your garbage, pave the roads and other necessities.

Who would want to do that without getting something back? The world would have to change. Probably by introducing forced labour.

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Jare 4575 days ago
I don't think this is about it being "impossible" to die. Without additional assumptions, you still need to provide for food, health and shelter.

Even if death was an impossibility, you still need things that make time enjoyable, and with the entire planet competing for limited resources, money/price would still be the way to segregate access.

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kayoone 4575 days ago
People would still die from alot of different reasons, lives on average would just be longer.
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