This, and after 100 years or so you'd have enough money/assets to take the other 400 pretty chill and only need to make enough to eat and pay immediate bills.
The 500 year old question
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This, and after 100 years or so you'd have enough money/assets to take the other 400 pretty chill and only need to make enough to eat and pay immediate bills.
Why are some thinking they will become rich?
If you're not rich now, or becoming rich, the chances are you won't be rich. When people reach a certain part of their life they become a consumer rather than creator.
It's not like you have future knowledge.
You might get paid for a gig in a library telling stories of what it was like in your day.
If you're not rich now, or becoming rich, the chances are you won't be rich. When people reach a certain part of their life they become a consumer rather than creator.
It's not like you have future knowledge.
You might get paid for a gig in a library telling stories of what it was like in your day.
Two words, compound interest.
Wait long enough and you'll be able to afford a meal at the restaurant at the end of the universe
To watch a great film where a lot of the topics of this question get discussed then I recommend The Man From Earth
e: god my spelling is awful today!
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Soldato
Yes. Recently watched the pseudo low budget SciFi flick - The Man from Earth - and the idea is fascinating.
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Reminds me of Red Dwarf when Holly wakes up Lister after 2 million years in stasis and tells him became the most hated man ever because he left £9.50 in his bank account and thanks to compound interest he owned all the money in the world.Two words, compound interest.
Wait long enough and you'll be able to afford a meal at the restaurant at the end of the universe
Soldato
Yes, but you could always end it yourself if things got grim.
Even without the answers to a lot of the "depends on..." conditions, I definitely would.
In theory, you could maybe squeeze in 6-7 completely different lives, taking your experiences from previous ones into the next and make different choices that you made previously. Kind of like a 'New Game+' mode.
In theory, you could maybe squeeze in 6-7 completely different lives, taking your experiences from previous ones into the next and make different choices that you made previously. Kind of like a 'New Game+' mode.
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Main problem would be avoiding people who wanted to lop your head off with ancient swords.
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Is this making anyone else think of the guy in The Simpsons with permanent hiccups - “‘hic’, kill me, ‘hic’, kill me” 
Would there be some way of bringing people along with you, like biting them on the neck or something? I’m sure I’ve seen that work somewhere
There’s a good chance that you’ll see x, y and z die in a normal lifetime anyway!
Like Elon Musk…
Would there be some way of bringing people along with you, like biting them on the neck or something? I’m sure I’ve seen that work somewhere
There’s a good chance that you’ll see x, y and z die in a normal lifetime anyway!
Like Elon Musk…
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Imagine how good you’d get at saying “no”!! That’s a skill you only really learn as you get older
Imagine how good you’d get at saying “no”!! That’s a skill you only really learn as you get older
Indeed, it does, however a lot of that comes from knowing where saying "yes" leads you. I love, but equally fear, the process of time.
Soldato
Absolutely.
Soldato
There can be only one.
Man of Honour
Exactly, I get my state pension in May and I'm pretty sure there would be markers against us as we reach milestones.
No I don't think so. While it would be interesting to see what happens over the 500 years I don't particularly think I'd want to be in a cycle of watching people I'd come to care about slowly die off in a weird cycle. Also unless it comes with an unlimited money hack I don't want to work for 470 odd years
There's a pretty obvious money hack already just by the fact you'd be living to 500.
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Not yet you can't, no one has been frozen for even say a couple of weeks and then woken up again yet let alone 100. Current cryogenics is carried out on people who have recently died and is taking a long shot bet that there will be some way of both repairing them in that recent dead state and fixing whatever damage the cryogenic freezing has caused to their cells too.
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Maybe, but 450 years is a long time and being irrelevant when you did run dry is significant. I'd want to de-risk this entirely as the thought of centuries in poverty sounds like torture.
In good health? Then yes. It's going to be wonderful to see humanity develop. Sure there'll be a big war or two but humanity will recover, rebuild, and progress. My only fear is that I would turn into Rees-Mogg.