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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6851880" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>I just read a novel having the concept of downloading minds into new bodies and thus having long-lived people. Polychrome I think it was. character's name was a private dick named Kovachs.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, as noted before, rich people got richer, and held their wealth longer.</p><p></p><p>As you live longer, your total family size (great-great-great whatevers) gets so big, it's past the circle of friends size limit a human can handle. The result is, you're close to your grandkids. Couldn't give a hoot about 5 generations removed, as its too many people.</p><p></p><p>From my own thoughts on the subject:</p><p>old people are going to get priced out of the job market. Fact is, you only need 3-5 years to become good at ASP.NET programming (assuming you have programming talent). Me having 15 years of it just makes me charge more for being older, when in the reality, you could get a younger guy and get your project built.</p><p></p><p>Now consider that when you are looking at an actual 40 year old versus a 400 year old. The old guy's experience in Cobol, DOS, and quaint WIndows architectures don't mean jack taco in today's quantum computing architectures. Which anybody with 10 years in the current tech has mastered. So the old guy gets priced out because his experience doesn't really add more to the quality of his product.</p><p></p><p>Now an oldster who can keep resetting his career or cost of living expectations (I need more pay now than I did 15 years ago and I am in the same house with the same mortgage), could survive in such a job economy. Without that though, it'll be tough for a lot of people to adapt. Ageist protectionism might kick in, so the oldies can keep their jobs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 6851880, member: 8835"] I just read a novel having the concept of downloading minds into new bodies and thus having long-lived people. Polychrome I think it was. character's name was a private dick named Kovachs. Anyway, as noted before, rich people got richer, and held their wealth longer. As you live longer, your total family size (great-great-great whatevers) gets so big, it's past the circle of friends size limit a human can handle. The result is, you're close to your grandkids. Couldn't give a hoot about 5 generations removed, as its too many people. From my own thoughts on the subject: old people are going to get priced out of the job market. Fact is, you only need 3-5 years to become good at ASP.NET programming (assuming you have programming talent). Me having 15 years of it just makes me charge more for being older, when in the reality, you could get a younger guy and get your project built. Now consider that when you are looking at an actual 40 year old versus a 400 year old. The old guy's experience in Cobol, DOS, and quaint WIndows architectures don't mean jack taco in today's quantum computing architectures. Which anybody with 10 years in the current tech has mastered. So the old guy gets priced out because his experience doesn't really add more to the quality of his product. Now an oldster who can keep resetting his career or cost of living expectations (I need more pay now than I did 15 years ago and I am in the same house with the same mortgage), could survive in such a job economy. Without that though, it'll be tough for a lot of people to adapt. Ageist protectionism might kick in, so the oldies can keep their jobs [/QUOTE]
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