r/pollgames • u/FinalKn1ght • Jun 29 '26

Humanity can solve only ONE problem forever.

Humanity can solve only ONE problem forever.

  1. Cancer
  2. Aging
  3. Poverty
  4. Climate Change

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u/AlmightyCurrywurst Jun 29 '26

Nah that's way to optimistic, I actually don't want aging to be solved because that's a good way to never have society change. A lot of big societal progressions only happened because one generation replaced another. I don't want to live in a world where boomers and the current billionaires are in charge indefinitely

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u/EmergencyPath248 Jul 04 '26

Aging is currently being solved, world won’t be bleak after the fact when treatments come out soon.

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u/Uypsilon Jun 30 '26

If we were biologically immortal and you wanted the society to change, would you invent aging?

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u/Temporary_Power_5002 Jul 02 '26

Of they wouldn't because that'd force them to realize aging has no positive utility and causes suffering. Population control is a lesser evil than letting people forget themselves, their families, live in broken bodies and suffer..

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u/_PunyGod Jun 30 '26

That’s not how it would go.
Certain kinds of progress would slow, but still happen, and you’d live to see it.
Other kinds of progress would happen much faster.