Immortality and the super-rich
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“So, if the rich can live longer, the rich can get richer longer, compounding the already imbalanced spectrum of money, power, and control, experts argue in a new Financial Times article.
“The longer you’re around, the more your wealth compounds, and the wealthier you are, the more political influence you have,” Christopher Wareham, a bioethicist at Utrecht University, tells FT. The science of longevity will only widen existing gaps, he says.
Make no mistake, the effort to slow down aging isn’t slowing down. The Institute for Aging Research at New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine claims we’ve moved beyond hope in turning anti-aging into reality, and we now sit “at the point between having promise and realizing it.”
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And there’s me just submitted next month’s Material World for the Socialist Standard which concludes that socialism can not promise immortality and eternal youth.
Perhaps it can, it seems.
Not quite in the Super rich league, bracket.
Bank executive ‘was punched to death by a drunk stranger after leaving Ivy members-only upstairs famous restaurant’
Not sure about the paywall?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11622735/British-executive-Qatar-World-Bank-murdered-random-attack-Londons-West-End.html
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