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Standing in the exceptionally long line to get into the Ozzy house at HHN, I had a thought about a scifi movie plot, a Dust style short. Billionaires have been secretly developing a method to make themselves immortal by editing their genetics. Alterations that take 100 years to switch fully on🧵

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... The procedure works by altering code then putting the body in cryogenic stasis. "Wake to immortality" In 2028, the ultra rich began freezing themselves. By 2030 all 10,000 of the wealthiest people on earth choose this 100 year procedure, that, what to them would feel like a nights sleep🧵

... In the hundred years passing, the world has solved all of its ills, much the progress attributed to the lack of oligarch manipulation. Health care insecurity, poverty, starvation, wealth inequality, are concepts of history that the 8 billion people of Earth chose to eliminate. 🧵

... High standards of education, clean air, water, food, health care are considered human rights. The concept of money and wealth no longer applies in society. The goal of the human race is to gain knowledge and understanding rather than chasing wealth. Nurturing the planet as a singular ecosystem 🧵

... Have become our literal common ground. Rules for coexisting are implicit. To violate them in any way shape or form became unthinkable. The very few people of the new era who did are subject to productive incarceration for life, spending that time as a servant to the world, under permanent, 🧵