2050: The young sell their bodies to the old in exchange for lifelong free brain vat accommodation and Internet access
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the (old?) keep having kids so they have someone to trade bodies with later
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I kept thinking, what would life as one of those old people be like among peers who really are 20 years old and others trying to hide it
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and what age do you trade at? 4? 20? 30? does the price go down? what does "price" even entail in that context?
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I think that internet and nutrients are the only exhaustible resources you can pay BIVs with, everything else is luxury goods
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however if the technology is there, I expect the following to be more likely:
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