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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Attitudes to resources
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:24:08 +0100

>>
The market has consistently rejected cryonics as a waste of 
resources in part because people prefer to spend their dead relatives' money 
on improving their own and their children's reproductive prospects instead 
of using it to store their  post-reproductive kinfolk in liquid nitrogen.
<<


I have always found this attitude of "the market" disturbing and indeed 
irrational, if true. If the market had this attitude about other things, no one 
would take a holiday. This is usually a family's biggest annual expenditure, 
apart from taxes and other costs of citizenship that do not provide a direct 1:1
benefit.


If when someone dies it was possible to add together the annual expenditure on 
holidays, entertainment etc throughout his adult life, and then apply them to 
savings, what would the resulting sum be? [I say savings rather than 
investments, as speculating about such investments would be unrealistic because 
they would be done with hindsight. The savings rate after tax and inflation is 
probably quite low, even zero or negative.]


Do the cryo-detractors think all the expenditure other than food and clothing is
a waste and people should stop buying anything apart from the essential of life
to provide for these cryo-detractors and their descendants?

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more


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