In addition to your well-made points about the systemic issues at play, there's just something deeply 'funny-if-it-weren't-so-sad' about this guy's quest to reach the top of the longevity leaderboards.
He's managed to accumulate multiple millions (or is it a billion? because a billion is just so much more *sexy*) through his enthusiastic participation in an extractive economy (including the literal extraction of blood from his own son's body) and all he can think to do is make sure he still looks cute in a midriff shirt at age 45 (excuse me, 'chronological age' 45)?
The *best* case scenario for his future is that he'll be 117 years old, sitting in his underground bunker while the power flickers on and off, showing his grandkids these photos as proof he was once a total babe. (He'll then go on to remind them that his chronological age is only 103 as he sips blood from the IV tubes permanently embedded in their veins)
This is as about as far away as it gets from a meaningful, affirmative answer to Jonas Salk's question 'are we being good ancestors?'
In addition to your well-made points about the systemic issues at play, there's just something deeply 'funny-if-it-weren't-so-sad' about this guy's quest to reach the top of the longevity leaderboards.
He's managed to accumulate multiple millions (or is it a billion? because a billion is just so much more *sexy*) through his enthusiastic participation in an extractive economy (including the literal extraction of blood from his own son's body) and all he can think to do is make sure he still looks cute in a midriff shirt at age 45 (excuse me, 'chronological age' 45)?
The *best* case scenario for his future is that he'll be 117 years old, sitting in his underground bunker while the power flickers on and off, showing his grandkids these photos as proof he was once a total babe. (He'll then go on to remind them that his chronological age is only 103 as he sips blood from the IV tubes permanently embedded in their veins)
This is as about as far away as it gets from a meaningful, affirmative answer to Jonas Salk's question 'are we being good ancestors?'