Baby boomers run the world, and they're getting sick and dying. They've generally already achieved all that they're going to achieve, and survive by taxing generations who are still in their productive years (or are abandoned by comically bad safety nets.)
Maybe after they're gone, power will be distributed a little more equally throughout the remaining generations - if only because a lot of them had children very late in life. Until then, there's going to be a lot of money going into immortality schemes, no matter what their value is philosophically.
If you asked me, I wouldn't even understand the value of making a permanent mark on the world, even if that mark is positive. My job is to help the world think, to spread good information, and to minimize the material harm I cause. To disappear quietly and completely is to be biodegradable. My main problem with preserving rich people's brains is that it involves the burning of real resources to keep something around of dubious value. Nobody needs you 100 years from now; there will be plenty of people.
Maybe after they're gone, power will be distributed a little more equally throughout the remaining generations - if only because a lot of them had children very late in life. Until then, there's going to be a lot of money going into immortality schemes, no matter what their value is philosophically.
If you asked me, I wouldn't even understand the value of making a permanent mark on the world, even if that mark is positive. My job is to help the world think, to spread good information, and to minimize the material harm I cause. To disappear quietly and completely is to be biodegradable. My main problem with preserving rich people's brains is that it involves the burning of real resources to keep something around of dubious value. Nobody needs you 100 years from now; there will be plenty of people.