Rich People Are Freezing Themselves to Stay Wealthy Forever

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

The interesting thing about this is that these people never stop to think that the future they dream off might never happen. Aside from the fact that their cryo company might just go under, they don’t ever consider that in 200 years they might just wake up under a dystopia.

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9point6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Those attorneys must be laughing to the bank.

A frozen 2024 corpse is still a corpse and very unlikely to ever be otherwise. If it’s not entirely dead before going into the freezer it definitely will be after.

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- SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I wanna scam rich people too
  
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brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Every time stuff like this is mentioned, I’m just wondering…

Dude, even if you’re put on ice for like 40 years, extremely generous estimate, who’s going to care about bringing you back to life? Grandkids who barely even knew you? Your company shareholders who’d suddenly have to deal with a stupid caveman amongst them?

You’ll literally be better off dead for everyone.

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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For me the perfect irony is them waking up in an anarcho-communist society, where they would have to be just a worker, like everyone else

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- overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  “Uhh, what happened to my ever growing shares? They should have compounded into me being a trillionaire by now right?”
  
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- dyathinkhesaurus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There was a scifi short story from some time ago, wish I could remember the name, where one of them woke up, and realised all the others he’d signed up with, in the cryo chambers around him, had all been harvested for organs and body parts.
  
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  - db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Transmetropolitan also has a chapter about this where they would wake up in a cyberpunk dystopia and it would break their mind, leaving them catatonic.
    
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admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This is an economic editorial, not tech news though.

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- db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wasn’t sure of a better place to put it.
  
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RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The cryo companies can’t easily go bust, one of the reason it costs so much is they purchase a perpetuity to cover the cost forever.

I looked into doing it myself, it’s not out of reach for normal people if you pay for it using life insurance.

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