“You can’t afford it” Just take a loan, you’ve got all of eternity to pay it back
Yeah, I could see them making people work centuries to pay off the debt, or even worse, it only extends your life by a few years at a time and they turn it into a subscription service
Now you’re thinking with capitalism!
Also similar concept, check out John Scalzi’s Old man’s war, follows that idea
Fantastic hard sci-fi book series. And it didn’t focus on this one high concept but has lots of themes about humanity. PS: Apparently a TV series is under development!
I never really understood why people called it similar to The Forever War.
The “similar premise” is mostly just acknowledging that relativity is important to space travel.
Wait, Old Man’s War has FTL? Or was it important for in-system battles? I haven’t read them in a while.
I recently red The Star Carrier Series by Ian Douglas and that has FTL and interesting hard-sci fi battles with relativity effects.
I agree that the forever war is quite different in concept and style, much more esoterical.
There’s also the terrific book, Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley, a book I bought on a whim when killing time in a college bookstore with a tiny sci-fi section and have since recommended to many people who thanked me for the recommendation.
The concept is that in the future, it is discovered that there is an afterlife, but only a very small number of people can get there naturally. So a medical procedure is developed that allows people to get to the afterlife. However, only the wealthy can afford it. Once their afterlife is guaranteed (things can go wrong, but that’s another issue), they do things like start hacking people to death in the streets to commit suicide-by-cop because what have they got to lose?
Except we’ll be able to afford it and even the government will enforce it.
Imagine paying for kids, school, and so on before people can start working and then get like only 30 years of productivity before having to take care of them again for years and years?!
Nah longevity will be sponsored and paid for by any not stupid country. How do we like to live our lives, that’s another matter ofc.
Nah, the ultra rich assholes would still want to wipe their asses with all the resources in the world, just to ensure “the poor and undesirables” don’t get to use it before them.
That puts too much blame on individuals instead of the system. These aren’t bad apples, the system isn’t broken. The system works as intended, it’s just that most of us are on the losing end. Also: there is no alternative.
The system is broken, though. It’s unsustainable in the long term. There are alternatives.
That would explain Elon Musk being concerned about the Sun engulfing Earth a billion years from now
No that’s just his 12-year-old-on-the-internet reason to sell land on Mars.
Gods, you couldn’t pay me enough to live forever. I’m looking forward to dying.
Living forever is a curse for sure if you have no way out
But living as long as you want in good health is for sure pretty awesome
half-baked premise paired with lazy art style
But enough about you!
