Trying to live forever. It’s a myth that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen; the Cryonics Society of California claims he was very interested in the process, but his “family didn’t go for it.” Today, several super-rich types are investing heavily in cryonics, as well as other life-extending measures. Canadian electronics billionaire Robert Miller and American hotel and casino billionaire Don Laughlin have both poured tons of support money into Alcor, which bills itself as the “world leader in cryonics.” If everything works out for these two, at the point of death, their body temperatures will be lowered to somewhere below −120° C (that’s −248° F) in a process called “vitrification” until the cure for what ailed them is discovered and they can be revived, or something like that. (They’re also planning to have most of their assets frozen, because what’s the point of bothering to live if you’re poor?)
Plenty of nonwealthy people can afford cryonics, myself included, by using life insurance as the funding mechanism. For some reason this idea fails to communicate in most of the stories I’ve read about cryonics. You can see cryonics’ true wealth demographics just by going to a cryonics convention, like Alcor’s in Scottsdale this October, and noticing the absence of attractive young adventuresses who want to try to meet and sell themselves to these allegedly wealthy men. If anything, cryonics acts as “female Kryptonite.”
Does absolutely EVERYTHING come back to women not throwing themselves at men for you?
EDIT seriously this is like a third of your posts. It gets thrown in as non-sequiturs everywhere for no apparent reason. Are you intentionally trolling?
Most of the article jumped out at me as bizarre. Wife bonuses are just a very formal and translucent process for negotiating a relationship. There’s nothing wrong if two people want to negotiate like that. The $1500 purses are a better example. And lots of people plan for doomsday scenarios. And why wouldn’t you want a doctor who could make house calls if you could afford it?
A spouse should prefer that you signal unconditional commitment to the marriage rather than conditional commitment. Wife bonuses signal conditional commitment. That’s why people find them distasteful. (For rich people, of course, they countersignal “you get so much from marrying me that I don’t need to commit unconditionally in order to keep you”.)
9 obscene ways the rich spend their money
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/02/9_obscene_ways_the_rich_spend_their_money_partner/
Look at #7:
Plenty of nonwealthy people can afford cryonics, myself included, by using life insurance as the funding mechanism. For some reason this idea fails to communicate in most of the stories I’ve read about cryonics. You can see cryonics’ true wealth demographics just by going to a cryonics convention, like Alcor’s in Scottsdale this October, and noticing the absence of attractive young adventuresses who want to try to meet and sell themselves to these allegedly wealthy men. If anything, cryonics acts as “female Kryptonite.”
Does absolutely EVERYTHING come back to women not throwing themselves at men for you?
EDIT seriously this is like a third of your posts. It gets thrown in as non-sequiturs everywhere for no apparent reason. Are you intentionally trolling?
Most of the article jumped out at me as bizarre. Wife bonuses are just a very formal and translucent process for negotiating a relationship. There’s nothing wrong if two people want to negotiate like that. The $1500 purses are a better example. And lots of people plan for doomsday scenarios. And why wouldn’t you want a doctor who could make house calls if you could afford it?
A spouse should prefer that you signal unconditional commitment to the marriage rather than conditional commitment. Wife bonuses signal conditional commitment. That’s why people find them distasteful. (For rich people, of course, they countersignal “you get so much from marrying me that I don’t need to commit unconditionally in order to keep you”.)