<i>That&#x27;s a great future problem to have</i><p>It always looks like that from the &quot;before&quot; side of things.<p><i>Our lives have gotten better for it.</i><p>That is the historical trend. But it&#x27;s only a trend, so beware of inductive reasoning. It&#x27;s not firmly anchored in any kind of mechanism or theory. There are reasons to believe that immortality overlaid on a capitalist free-market system might be horribly dystopian.<p>More likely, horribly dystopian and utopian all at once. In fact, I&#x27;d say the Bay Area is already horribly dystopian and utopian all at once.