Comment by orangecat
19 hours ago
The wanting to live forever part also seems weird to me
Wanting to die after a handful of decades seems weird to me, especially if you're in good health.
It seems obvious to me that I (or my generations) need to die for my children and grandchildren to have a good life
That is very much not obvious.
Boomer health and life expectancy is one of the issues western countries are struggling with now. Having GenZ pay for extended expensive retirements whilst simultaneously gouging them for artificially scare accommodation is the result. Now imagine everyone lives in perfect health forever. The incumbency effect for wealth and power is going to be overwhelming without pretty fundamental political and social change.
Perhaps you think that is possible? I hope so, but the evidence from octogenarian US politics isn’t hopeful.