Many people yearn for longevity, and some people do not yearn for it, and everyone has their own reasons. It stands to reason that the rich generally aspire to a long life, because they have a lot of wealth in their hands, and they can enjoy life on it, and they can live more easily than the poor.
However, Musk, the world's richest man, is not very interested in longevity. Musk believes that humans should not fight aging, and death means a lot to humans.
Why would Musk say that? Musk explained that if people live forever, the society will become rigid and rigid, unable to introduce new ideas. In addition to bringing social problems, there are also health problems that need to be solved, such as dementia, cancer, serious diseases and so on. With existing medical technology, these diseases cannot be rooted. Therefore, living for a long time is equivalent to suffering.
From the perspective of social resources, healthy longevity is not necessarily how good, although it is a healthy longevity, but it also occupies social resources, but does not create social resources. This means that when you are old, you want to occupy the production value of others and consume it, and the development of the whole society will be seriously affected.
After all, resources are limited, and the pressure on young people will increase as the number of elderly people in society increases. It is a very heavy burden for both individuals and countries.
Jobs once said that death is the best invention in life because it gets rid of the old and makes room for the new. A person's three views will be fixed at a certain age, and if the life expectancy is greatly extended, it is difficult for new ideas to pour in, and the whole society will stagnate. When the mind stagnates, the mode of production cannot be innovated, the production efficiency does not go up, and the resources will become more strained.
Musk also believes that in order to significantly extend life, it is impossible to achieve through balanced diet, exercise and other ways. However, this can be achieved through gene editing techniques. But geneticists don't agree to do so because human DNA genetic programming involves ethical issues.
If human beings want to live a long life, hundreds or even thousands of years longer, they need to solve many problems. Only when science and technology have developed to a certain extent and human beings have the ability to access the resources of other planets can the human longevity plan be put on the agenda.
At this stage, because medical technology and technology have not reached the level of making human beings live a long life, human beings can only pursue to live for more than ten or decades. It is not impossible for human beings to live for hundreds of years, which requires the support of advanced science and technology.
(Text/Boo Tsai)