Re:Naked Mole Rat’s Longevity Gene Gives Mice a Longer Life
by keepamovin on Friday August 25, 2023 @08:37AM
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I don't think we know what happens when this is achieved, but it is fun to speculate. I'm sure what you lay out is one of many possible futures.
Re:Naked Mole Rat’s Longevity Gene Gives Mice a Longer Life
by hutzlibu on Friday August 25, 2023 @08:53AM
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"With no deaths, wealth concentration grows to the extreme. A handful of people get to control the entire world."
I rather think the treatment will be so expensive, that only the very rich can afford it - and then you have rich immortal overlords, ruling over the lowly mortals.
But that is not a given. If there is treatment for everyone, it might make people more responsible.
Most people today won't have to feel the real consequences once global warming hits hard. But if they know they might - they might see things in a different way. And this goes for everything, also how to maintain a sustainable reproduction.
With no deaths, wealth concentration grows to the extreme. A handful of people get to control the entire world. And most of those people are strange, so the fate of civilization rests on the off chance that they allow regular people to live a good life.
Society as we know it will be unrecognizable in that future. Whether it’s a utopia or dystopia, I think it’s neither, but does sound a bit dystopian.
So yeah, that’s not a free lunch.