Also, I hope the Ye stops stalking you⊠no one deserves that.
Immortal billionaires is a terrifying concept.
Iâm hoping we see advances in curing disease and for loss of function in old age. Maybe some life extension. But I think itâs good we have our time and move on.
Weâll never get the super humans if evolution stops. And if evolution stops - weâre ripe for all the disease organisms that do.
Thatâs the core theme to Altered Carbon.
I havenât watched yet. It seemed a bit Uber violent & I didnât think I was ready for it what with the pandemic threat.
Do the billionaires fight to erase each otherâs stored consciousness? Or incorporate their rivals in nasty bodies or animals?
All of the above, plus gratuitous sex.
Well, as long as the sex is good.
I didnât say thatâŠ
Huh. Called it about a month ago. When you have more money than you can spend in a lifetime, this is their solution instead of giving it away like Chuck Feeney:
The sex is also cursed
Iâm not saying this is exactly how itâll turn out but this is exactly how itâll turn out.
A rising tide lifts their boats.
A rising tide lifts all yachts.
Jonathan Swift knew how to deal with the immortal Struldbrugs
" As soon as they have completed the term of eighty years, they are looked on as dead in law; their heirs immediately succeed to their estates; only a small pittance is reserved for their support; and the poor ones are maintained at the public charge. After that period, they are held incapable of any employment of trust or profit; they cannot purchase lands, or take leases; neither are they allowed to be witnesses in any cause, either civil or criminal or economic, not even for the decision of meers (metes) and bounds."
âOtherwise, as avarice is the necessary consequence of old age, those immortals would in time become proprietors of the whole nation, and engross the civil power, which, for want of abilities to manage, must end in the ruin of the public.â
â Jonathan Swift, Gulliverâs Travels
