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From: Gerald Monroe <>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:15:20 -0500
Subject: Re: CryoNet #32986 - #32990

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> As for your description of billionaires as being "irrational," this is
> an attitude which is not going to get you very far. People with a lot
> of money are, in my experience, highly sensitive to the desire of
> other people to spend some of that money. The first step in signing up
> wealthy people is to respect their right to keep their money for
> themselves.
>

That has to be a huge part of it.  A billionaire is going to be inundated
with requests for money.  Still, what good does it do one to have incredible
amounts of money in the bank when natural causes kill you anyway?  Even if a
billionaire dies surrounded by the world's best doctors and dozens of
apparently loving families members, he or she still dies and that brain rots
away.  One would think that an individual smart and lucky enough to become
this wealthy would take a crack at solving this problem.  There's also aging
research which might someday figure out exactly what causes humans to age.
 It isn't as controversial as cryonics, but you never hear about
billionaires donating to that either.

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