I disagree. Robin Hanson has extensively argued that the development of software emulations (such a development is a likely necessity for cryonics to work) would lead to a crash in wages (since supply of labor would be able to rise quickly enough to meet demand for the first time since the Industrial Revolution). In that scenario, almost all market power would fall to the owners of capital, and since wages would be near subsistence anyway, lots of ems might offer ownership of themselves in exchange for the right to survive. That situation has historical precedent (and lingers in parts of Africa to this day).
I disagree. Robin Hanson has extensively argued that the development of software emulations (such a development is a likely necessity for cryonics to work) would lead to a crash in wages (since supply of labor would be able to rise quickly enough to meet demand for the first time since the Industrial Revolution). In that scenario, almost all market power would fall to the owners of capital, and since wages would be near subsistence anyway, lots of ems might offer ownership of themselves in exchange for the right to survive. That situation has historical precedent (and lingers in parts of Africa to this day).