[ExI] Transhumanism and Politics

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> Damien Broderick
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> 
> There are nations (like my own) where social security is a 
> means-tested safety net...
> 
> Damien Broderick


Ja.  We don't have that in the states.  Social security payments not only
are not means tested, it is illegal to change the rules to make it so.  It
isn't a need-based safety net, but rather a forced pension fund.

Some governments might pay for some life extension technologies, but the US
will not.  The individual is on her own here.

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