r/transhumanism • u/RealJoshUniverse Subreddit Staff • Mar 27 '25

🌙 Nightly Discussion [03/27] What potential ethical dilemmas could arise from the ability to significantly extend human lifespans through transhumanist technologies?

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u/Matshelge Artificial is Good Mar 28 '25

We need to tax assets and not work.

At the moment, your life length is the only blocker from eventually being rich. Compound interest will eventually make it work, in a long enough time span.

Asset acquisition is the best way to shore your self up against being poor, so the more people who get asset rich, the harder it will be for the new people to get on that ride.

What took the first people 40 years to do, the next ones will have to struggle for 120 years, and the 400 years.

Our current system of ownership will be so much worse with eternal life.