Billionaires do not have any special talents, perhaps beyond a coldness of spirit and lack of empathy so that their population is determined by the current holding capacity of the socio-economic and political world they find themselves in. What I mean to say by this is if you cause a particular billionaire to live an additional hundred years the result is not an increase in the net number of billionaires but rather their revised individual longevity simply limits other sociopaths from assuming billionaire status. Now you likely do not personally know any billionaires so whether they are constantly reshuffled by a natural lifespan or its the same set of long lived fuckers actually makes no odds to you. You do however very likely know people within a fifty meter radius of you, family and friends. Your life will be greatly enriched by the resurrection of such people and for the reasons I have stated not overly harmed by Nosferatuing a few mega-rich.
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Yes
Do the billionaires know they have extra 100 years?
Use my power to revolt against the billionaires. Just keep me alive while keeping any opposition 50m away (assuming I have no direct control over who is and isn't revived) and you'll be fine.
Although my experience in video games where this is a game mode tells me I wouldn't be kept alive.
Yes. I am firmly of the belief that if we discovered imortality suddenly theyd care a fuck ton about climate change and still alive when we start boiling
Nah, 100 years of extra life (even more if they are randomly selected more than once) would give them plenty of time to exploit us all to colonize Mars and beyond in order to flee there and become emperors of a new planet, so they'd still destroy the Earth. You underestimate their shittitude as 'human' beings.
The technology to allow them to live the kind of life they would want on Mars would also greatly decrease the human impact of the climate crisis applied to earth. A mars colony fundamentally requires the ability to insulate an entire city, to ultimately civilization, from a climate more inhospitable than we could render earth even if we burned every scrap of coal and oil in the ground, and a billionaire would probably want more than just that bare minimum functional civilization to live someplace.
And you think they'd lift a finger to make that new technology accessible to the rest of us? As always, we'd be lucky to get the crumbs they leave us.
We might benefit, but only if they could not keep it entirely to themselves...
Given the events of the last 4 years I'm done with offering any benefit of the doubt to billionaires. Default judgement is 'they are evil, selfish pricks who will throw everyone else to the fire unless there is something in it for them'.
I don't think they could actually stop such a technology from being deployed on earth in such a scenario. Nor do I think they would really object, it seems doubtful to me that they would all want to go to mars, and for those that don't, trying to prevent it's use is counter to their interests.
Or they could just... hide in a bunker and watch us all suffer...
Our would they care about rockets to Mars?
Would they know?
What if the cause is a chronic disease or just old age?
Might be funny to get within 50 meters of an execution and bring the person back.
Could probably use this to start a cult.
Worst case is get caught by a billionare who starts mass killing people for me to heal to maximize the odds his life is extended.
I would use it... eventually.
But only after becoming an elite assassin who specializes in eliminating billionaires, and only after becoming so good at what I do that I run out of targets.
Adding +100 years is more of a curse than a benefit... Like the old song says:
"Methuselah lived 900 years.
Methuselah lived 900 years.
I don't call that livin'
'Cause no gal'l give in
To no man...
Who lived 900 years."