The WILD ECONOMIC IMPACTS of an AGING CURE

[@DaveShap]

It'll happen sooner or later. The economic carrot is too huge. Also nations need to solve demographic collapse.

[@markvoelker6620]

When people ask me what I’d do with thousands of youthful years I just tell them I’ll take it one century at a time, thank you very much.

[@kairi4640]

Ikr? I always felt it was sour grapes with people thinking eternal youth is a curse: since we can't have it might as well make it look like it was bad anyway. The important thing is people should have a choice if they want to die or not. This would also be necessary for space exploration etc. So that would solve the population issue, people could just move to other planets lol.

[@markvoelker6620]

@@kairi4640 Agreed on both points.

[@pgc6290]

Hey if possible could you please research on what all government/s is planning on implementing age reversal if it does come in future. Also you should collaborate with other people if possible like interviewing people from this field so that you get more visibility which a channel like you truely deserves.

[@SilverFan21k]

Yall deserve way more views

[@lasagnadipalude8939]

All this without talking about the fact that when immortality becomes mainstream everything will be autonomous already

[@emmettshort]

Important to note that reversing aging doesn’t mean you can’t die when you’re spaceship, crashes or something like that. And I’m sure robot workers will have a bigger economic impact than an agent cure so with the combination of the two were in for a pretty sweet, looking future in my opinion.

[@FailTrainS]

Maybe this'll be the solution to population collapse. We'll slowly become the elves and then... Funny that some of the biggest problems with the early age-reversal treatments was that it caused cancers to grow.

[@joshlocher71]

hi Emmett will you please keep me updated about the chemical cocktails from harvard

[@Azmarith]

I think that robotics, and just automation in general affects different parts of the economy. The reason that humans and technology work so well together is because machines are good at things that humans are bad at, and humans are good at things that machines are bad at.

[@joshlocher71]

@@Azmarith have you heard about the chemical cocktail

[@Azmarith]

@@joshlocher71 I have not. Do go on...

[@GenIsysGames]

If those numbers are correct about the GDP, it is a no-brainer. Can't wait to get mine.

[@ilyam7671]

Those numbers are not GDP. It is combined willingness to pay for extra years. I think that these numbers cannot be directly equated to GDP increase.

[@JReuben111]

very interesting - asking the big questions !

[@antoine.-]

Keep going strong my man

[@NeoKailthas]

This is the exact question I wanted to solve but knew it would take me a long time to put it all together. Glad someone else is saving some time 😅

[@elizavetapeganova9541]

You have really amazing imagination. 😊 Cool ! 🎉

[@XOPOIIIO]

Old people are often rich because they had enough time to accumulate their wealth. If you are immortal you don't need wealth transfer, you could just save $1000 a year for 10% return to become a billionaire in 120 years.

[@paultoensing3126]

First, I want to become the All Being - Master of Time, Space and Dimension. Then, I want to go to Europe. - Steve Martin

[@H0wlrunn3r]

I would probably take it easy for a little while and let my boredom be my barometer for when to jump back into something more profound. I think we have enough problems to keep us busy in the "short term" so I am sure there will be plenty to do for a while!

[@LongevityScienceNews]

I’d take a chill break too. But as long as money still buys plane tickets, I’ll be working

[@CreativeIsolation]

Probably impossible to predict, but sure is fun to speculate!

[@raggedcritical]

A list of speculative SF books about post-aging societies might be good for an episode of this series. Like Cory Doctorow’s “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” or “Walkabouts”, or Charles Stross’s “Accelerando”, Iain Banks Culture series, Stephen Baxter’s Destiny’s Children series (it only has a handful of immortals, but the change in mindset it brings is explored a little). Or maybe the Altered Carbon extended series.

[@ElysianNovel]

I'd love that in one of your forthcoming videos, you could explain how we as individuals can contribute to making this happen. In the end, if it does happen, there won't be a single person who would not benefit from it. That is why I am eager to get involved, and hopefully, I am not the only one."

[@mortophobegaming6454]

i think the need to feel useful prohibits exorbitant procrastination regardless of your time prospect

[@elirothblatt5602]

Very strong video on an important topic. I subscribed!

[@viktoriyaforrest8265]

I would not mind just to grow lemons and tending to the beehives at my garden after first 150 years. With that nanobots it will be easy to watch over a beehive. Plus, is speaking of procrastination in style "will do this in the next century" - seems legit, if you know about certain tech that will for sure be available then, so why not to wait? 😊

[@brendansully12]

Love your channel and love your work. You had me in the first half, but lost me when you started talking about how the government might need to control our wealth. If I'm immortal I couldn't care less that my parents got more money than me, government doesn't need to get involved

[@yourbrain8700]

The need for work is arguably only necessary for the happiness of those whose brain was heavily molded by the necessity for it. Personally I'd be very content just meditating, hiking, making love, cooking, exercising, reading, etc.

[@houndofzoltan]

Interesting. I think creating things which others can consume, whether it's writing a book, making jewellery or teaching, is an important source of satisfaction: whether that's work or not I guess depends on abundance.

[@SirTenenbaum]

We can't predict what technology will be like 100+ years from now, which is why far-future speculation isn't highly useful.

[@marcusroizen7424]

I’ve got thousands of years of projects in my mind.

[@galtbarber2640]

Idiocracy was Hilarious! Welcome to Costco! I Love You.

[@houndofzoltan]

Seems like robots and AI will make all the predictions about money saved by life extension irrelevant.

[@watmosphere]

I'm absolutely sure you cannot "cure" or more so "reverse" aging, it's a complex process going only one direction (like the 2nd law of thermodynamics), the best you may be able to do in the future is to slow it down to a point of barely noticing.

[@houndofzoltan]

There is an argument that there is no point spending money on a new technology, fusion, curing cancer or aging,until the time is right. I guess that really depends on how the money is spent: if you can idenify the next breakthrough needed to push the tech forward then it seems like spending should speed things up at any stage.

[@barzinlotfabadi]

That would be pretty funny if someone was like "Yeah I was hanging out on my superyacht this weekend drinking a 3 Michelin star professionally prepared meal before I decided to go for a swim in the on-ship pool, then I got into my helicopter and piloted back to my mansion" and everybody was disgusted at how broke this person was.

[@arttoegemann]

Life insurance? Last Wills? Dr. Victor Dzau is already preparing and teaching for extended lifespan. Happy searching. Hey! I didn't know donations to lifespan io are tax deductible.

[@lizgardner-jy4lq]

Well I would call this a very sad illusions 😢😢😢

[@dunmwarupreachan4567]

I'd imagine that in a post labor economy, people would be pursuing what truly interests them. I hope the government is replaced by AI because you can't trust a human in a position of power. I would spend my new indefinite lifespan researching more on AI, synthesizing my own anti age treatment, expanding my knowledge in quantum physics, the occult, and interstellar travel. Live as a real-life Telvanni mage.

[@houndofzoltan]

The Drake equation is an interesting thought experiment, but since a lot of the factors are total guesses you can actually calculate nothing, so I'm not sure how helpful anythng analogous would be.

[@BJI82a]

I would like to stay a kid for much longer and enjoy life without a lot of stress then as I grow up I could look at a lot of different options for careers and see which one I would try first. The other question is if we can live for about 800-2000 years how much would we spend on earth and then maybe on the moon plus we are going to need brain chips to help out with our long term memory and the more people working in a country the more families can start and invest in the towns and cities. I really hope that cure gets here by the time I’m in my 60s.

[@hobojohnson9980]

If I could live as long as I wanted to, I would invest in Asteroid retrieval to better humanity. There are so many needed elements in the asteroid's, not to mention wealth generation and building a large rotational space station with the wealth.

[@beastboy3871]

People are wrong in thinking that a longer life will make you ** Procrastinate **, but the fact is procrastination happens due to pressures and when there is a lot to do but you have limited time, it paralyzes the brain. It is not the time problem it's the decision problem. Hopefully having more time at hand will solve this issue. I want to spend time ** learning ** everything I can about myself. It is not fair that we have such complex bodies and brains but so little time to learn and understand them. I would spend time learning useful skills. I would love to get a multiple PHD's in science and arts. As for ** inheritance **, We can always increase the Pie, right? I mean in stone age people used to explore outside there territories in search for food, water, and for new habitats. There is no-one stopping us from doing that in space, In-fact Elon musk Mars mission is doing just that. We can too use other plants for our children give them as their 18 or 180th birthday gifts ? It is true that the amount of ** knowledge ** is grown so much even in single field (and incrementing still ) that we need life times to study and progress further and it will grow more and more. Hopefully with longer lives and healthy bodies our scientist will be able to solve all these problem exponentially faster. I don't know why are you asking these question, their answers are pretty evident. The only real problem is the Control and future governance, but I think this can be solved too, if our think tanks join their heads together.

[@itsaskill9358]

If there was a true cure for all cancer that end aging. All cells in your body can be replicated in a lab right now, but it increases the chances of cancer.

[@tjf7101]

Kind of putting the cart before the horse, no? But okay, if I’m living for 150 or more I’m still OUT of the workforce as soon as economically viable.

[@stevechance150]

Don't focus on the need for a labor force. Between Tesla's Optimus Gen 2 robot and that new Unitree H1 robot out of China, we aren't going to have a labor shortage.

[@LongevityScienceNews]

Compared to what? If a country has robots and people working their gdp will be better than a country with just robots. Plus who wants a country where only robots are working?

[@pgc6290]

Ai will help us discover so much sht and that too mega fast, and will help us grow so super fast.

[@RAHGOTS]

You're assuming we even keep a monetary system at all. As automation increases, there will be no reason for humans to do most jobs other than to make money, giving people a false sense of productivity. I would argue this is already the case in many instances, and it's well within our technological abilities, for example, to automate a grocery store. It's just that huge efforts to automate things are always met with huge resistance from the public due to fear of losing jobs and thus their livelihoods. It is currently the case that most automation is more expensive (at least in the short term), than paying people minimum wage. However automation continues despite these challenges, and eventually the monetary costs of paying people to work will outweigh the costs of automating said labor. And it will be implemented. Therefore, society could go down one of these paths: - Resist automation, keep the status quo for as long as possible. People will lose jobs to automation, inflation will increase, costs go up, etc. Eventually governments will be forced to implement a UBI (Universal Basic Income) like system to house, clothe, and feed its people. But the process of getting there would be needlessly painful. Many people will suffer, become homeless, lack medical care, etc. Until the UBI-like system is implemented by necessity. or - Embrace automation. Look forward and plan for the inevitable, slowly make essential goods and products more and more free over time and/or implement an ever increasing UBI through social tax programs. Eventually, we could make money obsolete as all goods/services are provided for free. Experts in necessary labor fields may receive luxuries beyond those available to the common crowd, or their roles could be filled through volunteerism. This goes on regardless of whether aging is cured, but curing aging does make things easier as the social and economic burden of caring for the old is lifted.

[@LongevityScienceNews]

I agree automation will have a bigger impact on the economy but I wanted to make this specifically about the economic effects of an aging cure. A lot of new tech coming soon. Wild times.

[@marcusroizen7424]

I know a couple of the secrets. A perfect gut microbiome and resveratrol.

[@NotBirds]

Due to accidents, a surprising few people would live past 2000.

[@jeremyleonbarlow]

I suspect that improving safety of cars with AI driving, and just hardening the passenger area a la NASCAR style roll cages would be well worth the added expense to everyone. More importantly you would become very careful, or not depending on how much you like or don't like your life.

[@BrentNally]

Welcome to Costco. I love you!

[@andresmontana4466]

If I no longer aged I don't think I'd want to risk swimming in the sea and being eaten by sharks. Even more than I don't now....

[@marcusmoonstein242]

It's sad to see people complain that only the rich will have the anti-aging treatments when most people won't even do the cheap life-extension stuff available RIGHT NOW! It costs almost nothing to eat, exercise and sleep healthier, yet many people won't do it. They want a magic pill that will cure aging without them having to lift a finger to help themselves.

[@dilrajsingh4810]

at some point in the future we will be thinking about uploading consciousness and time travel,lets face it we will be bored to death

[@egyptnylia]

Rich people should just pay their taxes, through our time. With numbers like that, equal fairness should be fine

[@Arowx]

What happens if you factor in a future where AI takes over jobs?

[@jeremyleonbarlow]

Fully automated gay space communism.

[@marcusroizen7424]

Don’t remind them of why they’re keeping it a secret.

[@alwayslearning8365]

Society will adapt. Unfortunately I would have to go back to work as I am sure the companies paying my pensions would quickly stop payments.

[@andreeanovac1328]

I don t care about money . I just want to stay young.not necessarily immortal

[@marcusroizen7424]

And angels and demons are not bound to gender, race, species, or physical form, and you can perfectly well infer what that means off of this level of biotech.

[@mystikrebel1089]

I'll just de-age back to being a troublesome toddler again so to blackmail people for free icecreams and toys or I will throw tantrums like I use to 😅

[@DesmondDyeOfficial]

People will die in accidents,and suicide will be volunteer .so life insurance will still be essential

[@gerdaleta]

😮 if you want to understand the activities of people in a post scarcity society read the culture books😮 so there's no money whatever you're doing is like a super hobby😮 like let's say that you're really good at video games😮 in the culture just from playing video games you could become so famous because you would have robots automatically uploading your information😮 and other people will watch it curated😮 you can also become so famous or you could just become adept at what you do to a point that potentially the military😮 at that time known as contact😮 would reach out to you😮 I want you to maybe pilot drones or something😮 there are multiple deadly alien races that we were at war with😮 but the cultures godly technology is so powerful most humans don't even notice at any given moment the culture is involved in thousands of not hundreds of thousands of wars😮 infiltrations and upbringings of other societies😮

[@andrewhobbs5268]

i dont care who cures ageing as long as it happens in time for me to save family pets and elderly relitives we need to work togther so a cure can happen sooner than later dont want to lose family or pets been there dont want tgo thourght that again and we wont not if we cure ageing

[@gerdaleta]

😮aI may actually give us unlimited energy and potentially Utopia😮 because it makes so much money even like the oil tycoons when they normally try to stop something will be like now hold up here😮 if you guys give us some of this money will let this happen because this technology could allow us to be immortal and actually become gods who cares about money😮 but I don't want to be poor of course😮 and if we don't then the poor people will just kill us😮 it's kind of like that Rick and Morty episode with the dinosaurs everyone already knows they're here and they said 😮 what they said in front of the entire un😮

[@Arnuld15Governator]

Reverse aging always sounds great on paper, but I feel like we would repeat the same problems of past civilizations but now at a prolonged rate. We still need to solve the self motivated greed problem, spiritual and other moral problems first if we are to expand our already short lives.

[@keithstropp6593]

i would try to monopolize the eraser business, as with enough mistakes i could afford the treatment, lol.

[@pgc6290]

The effects of age reversal are too uncertain and huge and thats what i am super sceptical that it will gwt created or implemented in 10 years.

[@Alexander-ry3dx]

Before the Wright brothers succeeded, many people believed powered flight was still millions of years away if ever, just a few weeks prior.

[@pgc6290]

@@Alexander-ry3dx even if its successfully made in 10 years as david claims, i am worried if it will be allowed for public use by the governments.

[@Alexander-ry3dx]

​@@pgc6290 Then, let's aim to make it tough for politicians to get reelected unless they come up with a proper plan to ensure these medicines are easily accessible to everyone.

[@SirTenenbaum]

@@pgc6290 The companies in this field aim to go through clinical trials, regulatory approval, and broad distribution like any medical treatments. Governments already spend enormous sums of money on age-related ill health, so we can expect some portion of that to be directed to approved medicines to treat or prevent age-related ill health.

[@stevechance150]

We might end up with something like the 2011 sci-fi movie "In Time", or the Matt Damon film "Elysium". The ultra rich will find a way to keep us on a leash.

[@LongevityScienceNews]

So pessimistic!

[@SirTenenbaum]

I enjoy dystopian sci-fi movies myself, but writers intentionally create dire settings and characters to create compelling stories. It's much more useful to look at how this field is developing. For example, the CEO of Retro Bio, a startup with over $180 million in initial funding, explained the importance of broadly distributable therapeutics: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4CYg5uBZ85mq6M

[@fredcaceres2226]

wealth transfer to themselves definitely. People who have money should keep their money. That is fair. They made it, they keep it, it is what it is.

[@raggedcritical]

Unless they inherited it. Or stole it. Or scammed it. And that’s not getting into the fact that “fair” is a BS notion to begin with that’s applied very selectively to benefit those that already have money and power.

[@bsmith6646]

Great vid. If people get younger and healthier the pharma industry would still suffer. Probably cheaper to just import mass employment from overseas which is what the west have been doing for years anyway

[@SirTenenbaum]

This field, if successful, is how pharma would make money. For example, Eli Lilly has partnered with BioAge Labs, and Roche-Genentech has an epigenetic reprogramming research program. Startup biotechs will produce most innovation, and pharma will likely provide capital and scaling. A recent example is Pfizer and BioNTech.