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Dandibear t1_iumrldj wrote

This feels dystopian. We know what causes lowered mortality in the US: income inequality and the associated stress, lack of healthcare, stress, inability to meet basic needs, and stress. Also stress. So now the same people who could fix this and improve everyone's else's lifespans are instead trying to make their own pampered lives even longer?

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Mokebe890 t1_iumwq2a wrote

You know we talk about living to 200, 500 and 1000 years? Nothing you mentioned will help us to live so long, only to theoretized 150. As an european I cant wait for life extension to kick in.

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Cute-Excitement1935 t1_iuq1son wrote

They figured out how to lengthen terpenes. The richest and most powerful people in the world today have a very real possibility of living inhumanly long lives. They've found the fountain of youth. The pipe dream of every fabulously wealthy explorer since they slapped a sail on a ship has been made a reality, only to have the kinks worked out through experimentation. Elysium was a fucking documentary from the future. All the boring useless poo people will spend our lives making money for the Immortal Elite, and thank them for our payment of housing, sustenance, and medical care.

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abjedhowiz t1_iurcugu wrote

Well they want to enjoy the life they worked so hard to achieve. Whereas the lower income soldiers are thankful it’s finally over. This is humanity and human nature, there is nothing to get heated about.

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Typhpala t1_iun27r4 wrote

Inequality? the bottom 20% of US in income earn more than most europeans do, its bad choices, not lack of money. Culture is the issue, stress is just a symptom. Shit diet, badly designed cities an so forth.Life extension is the only real transformative technology since... electricity perhaps. Imagine not having old people, instead we all can be productive and enjoy life for 200 years, not having to retire and so forth. This is the holy grail for society overall, not just 'rich people'. It would be governments first priority to make this accessible to all, the amount of money saved in treating age related disease and sustaining non-productive people is absurd.im sure this will be messed up with time and we still wont get our 15h/weeks, but hey. Thats a different story, and also cultural.
I for one, cannot wait for this to be real.

The amount of people who are afraid of this citing rich people living long lives is baffling, as if the only solution to problems is waiting for people we blame for problems to die. This is absurd.

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