Humanity has always been capable of greatness. From fire to flight, from the wheel to the internet, our species has proven again and again that we can bend reality to our will through innovation. And yet, despite this history of ingenuity, our Rate of Advancement (ROA) in the modern world is painfully slow. This slowdown isn’t because of human limits — it’s because of a corrupt system that profits more from stagnation than progress.
Planned Obsolescence: A System Built on Breakage
Look around you. The products we use every day — phones, batteries, cars, even medical devices — are designed to fail. This business model, called planned obsolescence, ensures repeat customers but guarantees humanity’s long-term stagnation.
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Batteries could last thousands of years using advanced materials, yet we’re stuck replacing them every few years.
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Medicines that could cure are withheld because treatments bring in recurring revenue.
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Even food is manipulated with additives and harmful practices that keep people sick enough to remain dependent on the system.
This isn’t just inefficient — it’s a direct sabotage of humanity’s potential.
Billions Dead Because of a Slowed ROA
If billions of people have already died from aging, the system is complicit. Aging is treated as an unavoidable fate rather than the disease of decay it truly is. Every death from “old age” is not just biology at work — it’s the price of systemic corruption that refuses to prioritize longevity research.
Imagine if our ROA had not been slowed. By now, we could already:
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Cure age-related diseases.
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Strengthen the human body with regenerative medicine.
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Defend against extinction-level threats like meteors, pandemics, or solar flares.
Instead, humanity is funneled into a cycle of short lives, repeat consumption, and premature death.
Why the System Wants a Slow ROA
It’s simple: money flows from repair, not permanence. A battery that lasts millennia would collapse industries. A cure for cancer would end billion-dollar treatment pipelines. A breakthrough in longevity would disrupt every financial model built on retirement, life insurance, and generational turnover.
So the system stalls. Progress is stretched into decades of incremental updates instead of the breakthroughs humanity deserves. And every year we lose to this corruption, millions more die needlessly.
The Survival Argument
Humanity’s survival depends on accelerating the ROA. We already know extinction can come from many directions:
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Space: meteors, gamma-ray bursts, or solar flares like the one that once wiped out the dinosaurs.
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War: nuclear weapons, fallout, or even engineered biological warfare.
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Disease: pandemics like COVID-19 have shown how fragile the global system really is.
Now add to that the slow burn of aging, which quietly claims 100,000 lives a day. It’s not just a tragedy of individuals — it’s a slow-motion genocide by neglect.
A Call for Longevity Activism
To fight for longevity is to fight for survival. Demanding a higher ROA isn’t just about wanting better phones or longer-lasting batteries — it’s about breaking free from a corrupt system that values profit over human life.
We should not settle for 100 short years in a universe that spans billions. Humanity’s true future lies in technologies that extend life, cure disease, and shield us from cosmic threats. But to get there, we must challenge the system that thrives on slowing us down.
If billions have already died because the system stalled the ROA, how many more will be lost before we demand change?
Longevity is not just about living longer — it’s about unlocking humanity’s full potential to survive, adapt, and thrive.
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