I’m pretty sure they would. It’s not like they’d like to see their seaside properties go underwater within their lifetimes.
You think Jimmy Carter would be 100years if he was a homeless person. The age-gap between rich and poor will only get bigger. Don’t know if immortality is possible, but extending life is definitely possible. Extending life to 150 or even 200 is within our grasp, even today.
In older mice the best telomere therapies are increasing lifespan by ~15%. Max human lifespan is currently ~120. So, if those same therapies work on old billionaires they still wouldn’t live past 150.
Models for extending life in young mice and mice zygotes hit around ~25%.
200 isn’t within our grasp currently. 150 is if the animal models work on humans. But the treatments work better the younger the animal. Working best on embryos.
Tldr: It’s unlikely today’s billionaires will live past 150 without a breakthrough in telomere research.
Telomere therapies is but one path. There are many different paths that each contribute to a longer life in better shape. I’ve seen at least four different therapies, all very promising. I don’t have article links at hand. Point being, that these therapies are so close that they might already be available, for the exploitation-class.
Yup. They would setup camps and gas the mortals to solve the gods’ problems.
No.
Why?
They’d just need to get property in the safer places.I think they’d improve research in automation and AI. So that they can have their stuff, without having to rely on regular people who’d be wiped out or affected by climate change in the long run.
I don’t think so. Climate change is not a big threat for the rich. Actually they can even gain benefits from it, as it will push inequality to new heights.
I don’t think the billionaires’ investments are going to be worth billions if the global economy collapses.
Billionaires don’t care about the economy. What matters is whom owns the means of production. And in today’s age, whom owns the means of ideology production.
Being g a saint to a group of bullies is worth everything.
I think relative values mean more than absolute for them. They just need to keep their position as the richest people in the world even in absolute sense they will lose. Money itself expresses relative values. So billionaires will continue be billionaires.
We hoi polloi think in money numbers and what we can afford to purchase. For the Capital Class, it’s all about power. Money is just how they keep score.
Then those billionaires would continue to keep hoarding wealth across the globe and let everyone else live in/near poverty. Even if they manage to curb climate change, the whole outlook would still look incredibly grim.
No, they’ll try to solve it using the free market and fail
Nah, worse, they’ll succeed from their perspective. At the expense of everyone else.
At the current rate governments would spend the world’s remaining time making a cozy place for them to spend eternity alone.
If they’re immortal, they’d live through climate change, so no, they wouldn’t GAF.
I don’t know. I kindof suspect that:
- The billionaires may somewhat believe their own propaganda and maybe the climate chang denying billionaires may outnumber the ones who are more in touch with reality.
- The machines that capitalism has built to maintain and intensify wealth concentration may well have escaped the control of their creators. Corporations have wills of their own distinct from that of the people nominally “in charge” like the C-level leaders and board and shareholders.
- Climate change itself may have already passed a point of no return or if it hasn’t, it likely will before even the most powerful manage to redirect the momentum of the system in a different direction.
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Even if they did, they’d never publicly admit it. There’s far too much money invested in the industry.
No, worse. These monsters destroy everything to make the numbers go up.
You wish.
If I were a sociopathic billionaire I would love some degree of global warming. The more you make part of the world unliveable, the more I can charge people for living conditions.
I can create bio domes that have clean cool air and charge people to live in there. I’ve now successfully monetized clean air.
I’m pretty sure they would just become the goa’oul from Stargate and enslave the mere mortals.
Time to kill some gods.
Here, take a p90
