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March 19 2008 at 11:11 AM
  (Login Edward-M)
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Response to Point by point: Why "reanimation funds" could destroy cryonics.

Point #2: politics of the future:
.............. Leaving money in a fund is just giving that money to
.............. the government - they'll tax it.
..............
There's no guarantee that today's money system will exist when you're revived, so why not spend that money to help cryonics now? Infact, it's obvious that these big funds won't survive:

Liberal ideas are winning around the world. Infact we do everything Europe does a few years later, so how long until wealth taxes come? (Which would make this scheme fail.)

But George1st disagrees: he believes no one will interfer with his property rights because people just love deregulation. He's wrong: the "deregulate Enron!" movement is dead & so is the "deregulate home loans!" movement. These are part of the humor of comming online.

People like the regulation of monopolys & countless other "free market" financial scams. People are sick of economic corruption like people making billions while sitting on their bums.

I admit libertarian ideas would work better in a world just of individuals, but the world has simply gotten too complex. Companies today aren't individuals, they're complex government creations just like the entire money system.

In other words: Liberals already won. So expecting a reanimation fund to work is just silly. Really leaving money in a reanimation fund is just giving that money to the government - they'll tax it. So instead please give it to a cryonics group.


    
This message has been edited by Edward-M on Mar 19, 2008 11:12 AM


 
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