[extropy-chat] Extropian Scorecard

[Samantha Atkins]

Mike Lorrey wrote:

>--- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
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>>But I can't see why keeping everyone healthy and youthful would
>>`bankrupt the social security system'. On the 
>>contrary, I think this is one of the great benefits of any negligible
>>senescence treatment, and a major motive for governments to invest
>>heavily in its development *before* the shit hits the fan.
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>You are extremely optimistic to think that a government is going to be
>that smart and will actually implement such an optimistic solution. No,
>they will find that people will be living to 120 with ease, you will
>have three retired people for every working person. The word 'taxpayer'
>will become synonymous with 'slave' in future society and will be
>looked down on ("I remember when I was a tax payer, worst 40 years of
>my life.")
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Since I don't get the government paid off until mid-year and actually 
not until the end of Fall if you count all taxes and fees imposed by 
various governmental bodies, I hardly see that I am more of a slave with 
more retired people supposedly drawing from social security. 

But the solution to the SS mess is very clearly to dismantle it with as 
much compassion and care for those who have been led to depend on it and 
are already doing so or will be too soon to do something else as 
possible.    The second part of the solution is to do something about 
the rising median age of the population.  For that life extension, 
anti-aging and continuously improved medicine AND healthier life habits 
of the population are essential.   We must increase the healthy and 
productive years if all we Boomers aren't going to be seen as a 
parasitical burden. 

- samantha