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As long as it's made mandatory to cover with insurance so it's available to everyone. The last thing we need is an immortal ruling class.
Hoping real hard that Alternate Carbon is not becoming reality.
I see that you too have heard the prophecy.
Don't worry, going by past history this will be available to any and....uhh, [checks notes] oh, uh-oh.
Oh at this point it seems like we're treating dystopian science fiction as a guidebook instead of a warning.
Someone's getting hangry and needs a Soylent.
Hold on, what color Soylent are we talking about? Is it the delicious, definitely only plants, green flavor?
Let the death of Saburo Arasaka be a lesson to us all: even 150+ year old bastards can get choked the fuck out
On the plus side an immortal ruling class might actually start caring about climate change.
Sure, in the most dystopian way possible.
"Have you tried 'kill the poor'?"
... and reduce emissions by wasting the rest. But due to negative selection leading into that upper class they won't be able to manage the planet further despite thinking that they can and will die of hunger eventually.
Is a forever expanding population of old people much better?
If they're functional, and we get serious about space or birth control, then no it's not a problem. But that is another path we can take to really juice the dystopia.
It will take a very long time indeed before we can reach another habitable planet enough to alleviate an exponentially growing population, and forced birth control will be unpopular, not to mention probably employed as eugenics by those in power against those who aren't.
There's always orbital habitats. They ramp up a lot quicker than even a Mars colony.
Not the way I'd want to spend the rest of my life, that's for sure.
Eh, it would be worth it with the right recreational activities up there and knowing we weren't setting up altered carbon.
You'd have zero control over your existence. Someone else would own that station and you'd exist entirely at their whim. They would decide if you get food, air, water, shelter. No real access to nature. I'd rather die.
I already live the renting life. Not much is going to change.
You're not renting air and water. You have a market of options to choose from. None of those things will be true in space.
Air yeah, water though. We absolutely rent water. My point though is that we're already used to paying a monthly sum to exist.
In a market economy. I'd never sign up to be slave to a single corporation that has complete control of my life and livelihood.
Well hopefully we don't ever get to an orbital habitat fully owned and controlled by anything except a representative government. But we do need to get off this rock and humans are bad at long term planning. But we're uniquely good at. "OhShitOhShitOhShit, we need to engineer something right now!"
And yeah I realize that's close to brinkmanship, but really I'm just confident we could do it if we were properly motivated.
this might finally be a way to eliminate insurance companies
So we get Universal healthcare then, right?
right?
no