Eliminating Death -- Part 10 -- The Immortal Wealthy Elite Argument -- Video

G. Stolyarov II
 
Issue CLXXXII 
January 3, 2009
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Mr. Stolyarov addresses the allegation that the advent of indefinite human life extension would lead to a permanent stratification of society into wealthy elites who can afford the longevity-enhancing treatments and everyone else. This scenario is highly implausible in a free market. Indeed, virtually all technologies go through several stages of adoption. At first, the technologies are highly unreliable, extremely expensive, and only available to a wealthy few. But this stage is necessary in order for experimentation with the technology to occur, for the capacity to mass-produce it to emerge, and for further innovations to develop that render the technology safer, more affordable, and more accessible. Eventually, virtually every technology of the free market becomes ubiquitous, universally accessible, and practically free.

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Learn about Mr. Stolyarov's novel, Eden against the Colossus, here.

Read Mr. Stolyarov's comprehensive treatise, A Rational Cosmology, explicating such terms as the universe, matter, space, time, sound, light, life, consciousness, and volition, here.

Read Mr. Stolyarov's four-act play, Implied Consent, a futuristic intellectual drama on the sanctity of human life, here.