Terminal Value
Death was doing five jobs for the economy. Life extension removes all five at once.
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About this book
Economics treats death as a boundary condition and never inspects it. But death is quietly doing at least five jobs. It sets the discount rate. It turns over capital. It turns over ideas. It prices risk. And it creates vacancy. Each one is load bearing. None of them has a backup. Radical life extension removes all five at once, and the result is not utopia and not catastrophe but something stranger: a civilization that is wealthy, safe, static and permanently locked in. Meanwhile artificial agents arrive as the first economic actors with genuinely arbitrary lifespans, and the turnover function migrates from people to machines. An essay in five removals, with a full apparatus of notes so every claim can be checked.
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About the author
Samuel Safahi studies economics and accounting at the University of California, Santa Barbara. More about Samuel Safahi