Less consumerism, more mindfulness.
Being able to get paid for something you truly enjoy doing so it doesn't feel like work at all, and actually be able to live on the pay you receive.
And like a lot of others have mentioned, empathy and kindness.
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Kindness
Integral thinking. Currently only cca 2% of population and desperately needed in even more complex world!
Love, sweet love. Not just for one, but for everyone.
Longevity / rejuvenation / aging-reversal researchers and funding.
We can already reverse aging in lab and could it bring to humans in wild. But for that we need resources.
I just don't see why this sort of thing qualifies as a need and not a want. Such a treatment, were it to ever actually leave a lab setting and become a consumer product, would almost certainly be so prohibitively expensive that only the ultra-wealthy could get it.
Why should our uber-rich overlords get to extend their lives even a single year while there are people starving to death around the world? There are so many better ways to spend research grant money.
Would you say that there is no need for better research for curing cancer just because new treatments will be super expensive, so only uber-rich zilionairs will benefit?
Probably not. (I hope)
Aging-caused diseases are really just some other type of health problems that leads to death. And curing such things is what medicine is doing. Heart bypass is a great example of helping to survive such problem.
And yes, new tech is usually expensive. And with adoption it became not only cheaper but better. Compare first mobile phones that was super expensive and could do nearly nothing to todays cheap smartphone that is more powerful than the computer that helped us to land on the Moon. If you care about health of poor and middle class people, you could rather help to accelerate the adoption, so more people can afford aging-reversal medicine sooner and not suffer from aging.
I think I see where you're coming from, but I disagree that longevity treatments are equivalent to medical research that seeks to cure diseases.
The way I see it, everything dies eventually, even the stars above. I think it's one thing to seek to ensure that everyone gets to reach their 'natural' end (i.e. old age) by addressing things like cancer or degenerative diseases, and a totally different thing to artificially extend a lifespan past those natural limits.
I don't really have logic there to back it up, it's just a different category in my head. The only time I really see this sort of stuff talked about is by loony wealthy people doing crazy shit like stealing their kid's plasma in the name of living longer, which is probably coloring my perception unfairly of real longevity research.
Edit: fixed a typo and clarification
Empathy
Empathy for people you don't personally know
Public transit
Social safety nets <-plural
Unspoiled wilderness
Passive-house housing
Solar and wind energy
Tariffs...its tariffs right?
Wars?
Hatred?
Billionaires?
Pedo-kings?
Ok, I'm all out of ideas.
Haha i think tarrifs can be good but we all know the ones you're talking about specifically
It's obviously AI! We must slap AI into every single thing on this planet and let it take control of our entire lives.
Agreed, thinking is hard we should let machines do that.
Braless women in tank tops
Catgirls
Evil men facing consequences
Queso
Dead billionaires
Hyraxes
FOSS
Random access memory
Cowbell.
But more seriously, empathy and an absolutely gigantic reduction in greed.
Critical thought.
That actually solves every other issue in this post.
Except empathy. You can still decide to keep people as slaves when it benefits you and you don't have empathy.
And braless women in tank tops
Many great comments. I'd like to add green&walkable cities :3
Quiet spaces. Just sitting and breathing for a while is a valuable activity. It doesn't have to make money to be worth doing.
Guillotines.
A new species that humbles humans.
Thinking time.
The first mover advantage is so overwhelming in so many arenas. If we had the time to think we'd probably make much better decisions.
This is so true. I've realised that the root of my success is that I think about things more deeply and/or more often than pther people, and I'm more patient. I started to lose that part of myself and then started to fall behind. Now i'm on the path back, making my life less hectic andntrying not to fry my dopamine receptors
Tenderness. Where is the tenderness? Where is it?!
LOVE
spoiler
Level Of ViolencE
IN THIS WORLD, IT'S KILL, OR BE KILLED!
People like YOU!
Imagination
More appreciation for how good people have it.
trees and wild animals
Hope.
We need to be making actions to give us hope
Chill.
Both literally (global average temperature) and figuratively.
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