Aging is quite a sad prospect overall, but as long as everyone is subject to the same process it is a great equalizer of sorts. An unforeseen consequence that is often brought up regarding the philosophy of unlimited or greatly extended human age is that it would exacerbate all inequalities in a society. As it’s well-known, time is the biggest pyramid scheme of them all.
On the day of Tiananmen massacre, it occurred to me that it would have even stronger repercussions at country scale.
Taking democratic countries’ shift to the policy of non-involvement and combining it with hypothetical advancements that continuously extend Supreme Leaders’ ages essentially sentences generations of dictatorships’ subjects to hardship, exploitation and gaslit life under a kleptocracy.
Add to that increased existential threat to democracy, since such a dictator never would have to deal with inefficiencies of internal power and knowledge transfer or spending resources on facilitating an honest voting process, infinitely building connections and spinning its webs around the remaining parts of the free world.
One wicked old man interminably learning new ways to turn the world into a zero-sum game and win at it, as generations of servants come and go around him they are even easier to control.
On the day of Tiananmen massacre, it occurred to me that it would have even stronger repercussions at country scale.
Taking democratic countries’ shift to the policy of non-involvement and combining it with hypothetical advancements that continuously extend Supreme Leaders’ ages essentially sentences generations of dictatorships’ subjects to hardship, exploitation and gaslit life under a kleptocracy.
Add to that increased existential threat to democracy, since such a dictator never would have to deal with inefficiencies of internal power and knowledge transfer or spending resources on facilitating an honest voting process, infinitely building connections and spinning its webs around the remaining parts of the free world.
One wicked old man interminably learning new ways to turn the world into a zero-sum game and win at it, as generations of servants come and go around him they are even easier to control.