This is very selfish. As the population gets older we'll have fewer and fewer workers supporting all the healthy and long-lived old farts. The young will be taxed to within an inch of their life, causing their lives to be more miserable than they already are.
Before you get that dopamine hit from hitting that downvote button, ask yourself this: can more or fewer young people afford to own a home now? Why? Are they really that much more "lazy" than their parents generation?
Not at all. The only reason we support the elderly now is because they're unable to work. In a world of negligible senescence the old will support themselves.
So overpopulation via geriatrics is good but overpopulation via birth rate is bad? What's the benefit of running the planet-wide distributed human computer with ancient parts held together by drugs rather than new replacement units?
You are talking about individual benefits. I am talking about the entire humanity. Cancerous cells also benefit from having their kill switches deactivated. They just happen to kill the system that they are a part of while optimizing for their own survival. I am making the point that selfishly wishing to live forever is exactly like that.
You aren't making that point so much as asserting it without evidence. There is no reason to think longer lived humans will contribute to extinction. Perhaps thousand year old scientists and economists will figure out solutions to humanity-threatening issues that would have gone undiscovered and longevity will, therefore, save rather than doom humanity.
Just because you can imagine that, but not really articulate how, longevity might be bad for humanity doesn't mean you've made an argument.
> can more or fewer young people afford to own a home now?
More. Gen Z is ahead of previous generations. “30% of 25-year olds owned their home in 2022, higher than the 27% rate for Gen Xers when they were the same age.”
> Why?
Low interest rates during the pandemic helped, but generally homeownership stays steady regardless.
> Are they really that much more "lazy" than their parents generation?
Huh? Oh, did you assume the answer was “less”? Guess you should have looked up the numbers first, or at least not gotten your ideas about the world from Reddit.
You dismiss Reddit so readily. You must believe 90% of Russians support Putin. After all, that is also an official number published by a government authority.
Before you get that dopamine hit from hitting that downvote button, ask yourself this: can more or fewer young people afford to own a home now? Why? Are they really that much more "lazy" than their parents generation?