(Not) Getting Old
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aldersprigInspired by Life Extension, by Isaac Arthur.
His sci-fi videos are chewy but really interesting.
A story of Cya Red Doomsday, who does not get old, and one of her descendants, who hasn't had time to grow up yet.
read on…
...People will obviously still leave jobs, but they’re no longer retiring.
You are not going to get the management slot when Sally retires in two years, you are not inheriting Dad’s business, at least not for several centuries.
You’re not inheriting his house either.
When he does die odds are good he will have several thousand descendants kicking around.
You also now have a de facto gerontocracy....
His sci-fi videos are chewy but really interesting.
A story of Cya Red Doomsday, who does not get old, and one of her descendants, who hasn't had time to grow up yet.
read on…
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Date: 2018-07-20 04:01 am (UTC)Except it's still going on. Find a thing that looks nifty and jump in the middle of it. There's probably a lot of education needed, but not necessarily. One of my favorite bits of history is that the guy who invented modern probation, John Augustus, was likely a radical in the temperance movement — and a cobbler. No college, no legal education, nuttin.
There's lots to do, so long as you don't just want to follow in someone else's footsteps. I suspect that this is where our nameless descendant's frustration comes from: she hasn't figured out that there's anything more than following in someone else's footsteps. She's annoyed because that someone is still standing in them, and will likely continue to do so for a while. That said, even John Augustus got his start following in the footsteps of other cobblers before he branched off. If there's nowhere to start like that...
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Date: 2018-07-22 08:24 pm (UTC)