So we all can slave away for billionaires even longer? Fck off.
Oh boy! I can’t wait for rich assholes that make the world worse for everyone to live even longer!
I mean it won’t make them guillotine proof.
I no longer have any faith the working class will do anything but eat itself. In the US at least.
At least they’re going to have a minimum incentive to worry about climate change
They’ll just put aircon in their bunkers.
Forever. And so obviously presidential terms should be extended.
Did no one watch altered carbon? This doesn’t end well.
if we’re lucky we’ll get to see a few billionaires melt themselves before they perfect it
The good thing is, i bet most of these won’t help those that ate currently past their prime, i.e. Musk, Bezos, etc
Might help the zuck tho
It won’t help Zuck, cos there’s no mention that this therapy works on lizards lol
So Zuck can remain youthfully ugly?
Oh they will probably transfer bodies or something equally disturbing.
Who would’ve thought that the notion of extending human lifespan would receive this level of cynicism and opposition.
Excuse me, but have you seen all the end-stage capitalism out there? Let’s be realistic now.
Just like with everything else, it’s just for the rich
In the same way that AI bros have poisoned the well of “interact with your computer using natural language”, I think that the longevity research well is thoroughly poisoned for a lot of people by the realities of healthcare in the US, toxic intergenerational dynamics, and specific people like Bryan Johnson publicly using his son as a blood bag.
That said I hope that cell rejuvenation works and ends up cheap as hell.
Old people already own everything (rich old people in particular, but even the median old person has much more in assets than the median young person). If they live longer, they stay retired longer and therefore need more people slaving away to keep their assets growing in their retirement.
According to statistics from the US, people over 55 own 73.7% of all assets. Imagine all those people get 10 or 15 extra years to accumulate assets. Of course if this therapy is expensive then it’s just the rich ones so all of the drawbacks of people living longer with none of the advantages for everyone else.
Ofcourse they own more when they’ve had more time to accumulate wealth.
I still want to live longer and I find it quite insane to oppose technology that could achieve this.
If this gets any traction expect insurance companies to start getting religious real quick.
inventing immortality just in time for the climate apocalypse to kill you anyway
ugh. cellular reprogramming sounds a lot like gene therapy. its actually why I studies microbiology as I was facinated by the whirling blender experiment.
Hey it’s like Silo/Wool
