• Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      3 years ago

      Yeah, I could see them making people work centuries to pay off the debt, or even worse, it only extends your life by a few years at a time and they turn it into a subscription service

        • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 years ago

          No. They transferred their mind to new bodies, called sleeves. They had laws against double sleeving, putting your mind into more than one body, cause that causes all sorts of issues. The tech was basically what you’re stopped to do for computers back up data and when something happens to the computer you put the same data on the new machine. The basic version was local storage called a stack that resided at the base of the neck. That’s why executions killed the person and the stack. The rich had offside backups as well.

          This is closer to In Time where the single body was kept alive and they used time to pay for things. The rich had thousands, probably much more, years stocked up. It’s been quite a while since I’ve seen it.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
    2·
    3 years ago

    Nah, the ultra rich assholes would still want to wipe their asses with all the resources in the world, just to ensure “the poor and undesirables” don’t get to use it before them.

  • lugal@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    That puts too much blame on individuals instead of the system. These aren’t bad apples, the system isn’t broken. The system works as intended, it’s just that most of us are on the losing end. Also: there is no alternative.

  • Dojan@lemmy.world
    0·
    3 years ago

    Gods, you couldn’t pay me enough to live forever. I’m looking forward to dying.

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      3 years ago

      Living forever is a curse for sure if you have no way out

      But living as long as you want in good health is for sure pretty awesome