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- May 2023
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what replaces it isn't a human person free from nature but a market in which that nature 00:24:53 becomes a set of supply and demand problems
- Mary Harrington makes a good point
- about the dystopian possibility if major biological hurdles are removed,
- such as human aging
- witness the trend of cryogenic freezing of bodies
- which only the elites can afford
- pervasive inequality skews the utopian vision towards market realities
- the rich currently have access to the latest biomedical technologies that can extend / enhance life and human wellbeing
- the vast majority, the poor don't have access to it
- why would this change if transhumanism produces a cure for aging?
- such a technology would enable elites to outlive the rest of us even longer!
- about the dystopian possibility if major biological hurdles are removed,
- Mary Harrington makes a good point
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