[ExI] Population growth & Life-Extension

[William Flynn Wallace]

If you
know you'll still be around to reap the fruits of your current
behaviour, perhaps indefinitely, there's a lot more incentive, don't you
think? Ben

 I think that all of us are too smart, sometimes, to understand the
thinking, or lack of it, by people who are two or three standard deviations
below us in intelligence.  Given a very long life the average person can
say "Wow, I have nearly an infinite amount of time to pay off my debts, so
let's max out the cards."  People are lazy - well, maybe they are just
efficient:  always thinking of the easy way to do something. or get out of
it altogether!     bill

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 4:19 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 27/08/2021 01:35, bill w wrote:
> > Well, what I want to know is how to get people to act more
> > responsibly. Right now we have vast numbers of people who have no plan
> > or inadequate plans on how to support themselves in retirement, and
> > many (most?) will require welfare. Right now average credit card debt
> > is several thousand dollars - around 7000.  How to get them to act
> > more responsibly?  bill w
>
>
> This is what I'm saying. Life-extension will inevitably get people to
> act more responsibly. If you know you'll die within the next few
> decades, there's little incentive, from a purely selfish POV, to pay
> your debts, save for the future, preserve the environment, etc. If you
> know you'll still be around to reap the fruits of your current
> behaviour, perhaps indefinitely, there's a lot more incentive, don't you
> think?
>
> Ben
>
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