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Re:What ever happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans? by lovich on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @06:06AM (#34064290)
Might have done the world a service. Immortality combined with winner takes all capitalism will just lead to an entrenched race of god emperors that won’t be removed ever except by society wide violence, basically like medieval kingdoms or dynastic empires. Market economies have helped limit that a bit(wealth inheritances still have a problem), but one of the unstated backstops of that system is that eventually the rich people in question do eventually die
Re:What ever happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans? by arkh on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @06:24AM (#34064420)
> Immortality

If your body is not damaged enough. It would mean a lot of people would become really risk averse. If generalized it would fossilize a society really fast.

Re:What ever happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans? by aluminaient on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @01:24AM (#34077352)
You've repeated their point.
Re:What ever happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans? by recuter on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @06:09AM (#34064313)
The ends justify the monkey wrenches, eh?
Re:What ever happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans? by wongarsu on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @08:26AM (#34065529)
A guilloutine wouldn't have worked in this case
Re:What ever happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans? by lovich on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @03:21PM (#34071929)
If the other ends are live under immortal elites who never give up power, then kinda yea. That's was a lot of the reasoning behind peasants taking up arms against monarchies