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Can we please not make out-of-touch, old, rich people live any longer than they should.

They will be the only ones capable of affording this service. Reminds me of meths from the altered carbon series.

Technology always starts out being available to a subset of people before it's available for everyone. This is the path that leads to making it available to everyone.

I mean, if can mandate that "no out-of-touch, old, rich people" can "live longer than they should" to solve the problem, then we could ALSO solve the problem more directly and thoroughly by just mandating that "this is available to everyone". I don't make the rules, that's how this hypothetical works out if you think about it.

While I doubt it was the intent of the original poster's comment, there's no shortage of people who look forward to the death of old people they see as being in the way of change they desire.

Actually, I think you're wrong. That's a perspective you might get from watching certain news outlets, but if you get outside and touch some grass, meet your neighbors, you'll find that most people AREN'T cynical robots who have taken transhumanism to an eugenic extreme. Maybe just my experience, though.

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