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From: Gerald Monroe <>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:11:59 -0600
Subject: Re: CryoNet #33061 - #33063

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Also, assume cryonics works.  The billionaire wakes one day in that swanky
hospital bed.  Out of all the people that were preserved using the same
techniques using the billionaire's money, he (or she) is one of the last to
be revived.  This means that all of the long term complications have been
worked out and by this point the procedures are perfect.  He awakens into a
world where tens of thousands of people owe their very existence to his
efforts and they all know it.

What is likely to be worth more real wealth in this world?  An investment
portfolio that has had decades to gain compound interest, *but also was
invested in a world that developed molecular manufacturing*.  Such a
technology could easily make the firms that developed it rich...and bankrupt
every other corporation on the planet almost overnight.

Or the gratitude of tens of thousands of living people?  Charles, please
answer this one question.  The same argument applies for a mere millionaire
who paid to preserve his friends and family members instead of putting all
his funds into himself.

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