Lydia VvintersRandomly curious:
How long would you want your life to be?
No ageing, just you, but you can't kill yourself.
100 years
500 years
1000 years
Immortal
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Schroedingers_Cat@HeliaXyana I have to assume my pension providers would be having a epic fit at the time I was drawing. But I would like more time - time to see if we, as a species can pull back from destroying everything.
Long enough to dance on the graves of some of the scum in charge.
Also, I might need some new joints.
There is a long history of companies having a fit when they get the idea that immortality might be invented.
I can vaguely remember a story of a government promising morticians compensation in such event. I think in the 1960s the futurists caused similar panic in pension providers.
Even today, some companies voice concerns about curing cancer and improving general life expectancy.
So, indeed, there is an argument for choosing a long life, even if just out of spite. Ha!
@HeliaXyana But I don't think long life would be especially attractive if we had to work for most of it. If we expanded it by 5 times, and were expected to work until we were 455, that would not be any fun at all.
Yes, that's what irks me about adjusting the pension age to life general expectancy. It feels absurd that we reward our collective struggle against cancer with more years of employment for our children.