Several points.

Your post is about society - it's about what type of behavior will attract people to cryonics.

#1 First it misses the point - that trust funds would embarrass cryonics & just end up being tax revenue for a future government.

#2 I've been writing about money. If you wanted to keep a small house & some objects I wouldn't really care, although cryonics groups could still use those resources better...

But if you created a fund full of cash to profit over hundreds of years someday it would make us look like crooks.

#3 Your view of society is just wrong. You expect that the culture of "owning big objects" to continue & therefore attract people to cryonics. Really if you'd look at Europe & the rest of the world you'd see it's not, it's dying. You're supporting old ideas that are disappearing.

Around the world liberalism is winning: meaning equal opportunity & basic fairness. So you can expect taxes to be used to further make economics fairer - you can expect more taxes on work-free fortunes & less taxes on food.

In other words your fund wouldn't just end up as tax revenue, but your views for attracting people to cryonics are just old ideas that are disapearing.

It seems obvious to me, & I think most people, that after all these years of Bush & the "deregulation" of Enron, home loans, & such, that people are sick of all the economic corruption. We're mad as hell & we're not going to take it anymore. We're sick of the CEO robbing people's pensions & walking away with billions. We're sick of seeing so many simple idiots & crooks with tons of money.


"Some people are attracted to cryonics because it's 'strange' and appeals to their desire to overcome the limits of humanity. But most people do not operate like that at all."

You don't know this. You're just guessing. Frankly if the economy was better & more people could afford experiments like cryonics we'd see who was actually interested. Maybe it's people who'd volunteer more but have less money. Which frankly could be exactly what cryonics needs because the money system of today might not last forever.