Part III: A Much-Richer Society

Q1: What creates wealth?
A1: The production of goods and services people want.

Q2: What increases wealth?
A2: Doing A1 more efficiently.

"More efficiently", as in, using less resources, in terms of money, labor, time, and so on... And that's what curing aging — or, at least, vastly slowing it — would do.

See, the thing with doing things is that, the more you do them, the better at them you get. A plumber with 15 years of experience does his job in less time, making fewer mistakes, and spending less on material that he did when he only had 5 years of experience — whether he was fairly excellent or fairly mediocre in that five-year mark. Goes for everybody else.

Not only that, but the more someone does a certain job or works in a certain field, the more that person finds ways to do more in less time, breaking fewer things on the job, and just making the whole process run smoothly and be less costly overall. That's how a lot of new businesses that deliver better products and increase wealth get created: by someone who's been in the field for a while, figured out a way to do it better, and decided to branch off and offer that superior service to the world.

And that's just people working in a field for a few years.

Now, imagine these people being able to stay in their arena for, say, over a century. How much more improvement could they offer with all that accumulated knowledge? Every field of life will see an acceleration in the way it operates, from medicine, to garbage collection, to accounting, to coding. That improvement and greater efficiency is basically how wealth is created and increased.

Why say no to that?

-----------------------

See also:

Part I: Concerns about Overpopulation

Part II: Old-Age Suffering

Part IV: The Personal