[ExI] Transhumanism and Politics

[Damien Broderick]

At 07:18 PM 1/22/2008 -0800, Spike wrote:

>The government does not want us to live a long time after we become eligible
>for social security.

(Affordable) healthy longevity removes the currently wildly 
increasing medical expenses of aging.

It allows people to keep working and earning far more than they get 
from social security payments.

There are nations (like my own) where social security is a 
means-tested safety net, with a shifting age of eligibility. These 
nations also have governments, and would be extremely eager to cut 
costs wasted on the senescent.

Damien Broderick