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Let suppose for a minute that they found a cure for aging and that we can begin living for a lot longer than now.
(1) Our breeding habits will have to change. Agreed?
(2) How will social security work? I work for 30-some years and then collect SS benefits for the next thousand years?
Can you think of other social problems that need to be dealt with if people start living forever?
People would stop having babies. There will be no more SS for anyone because it won't be needed. Everybody would work forever or until they get bored with life and decide to end their lives.
If we figure out a way to stop or reverse aging, it will cause massive social unrest as it will only be the rich who can initially afford the process. People will use this fact to foment class resentment and there will be calls for immortality for all. This will be unsustainable of course. It also will be unrealistic. Do we want menial laborers with eternal life? Would they want this?
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