Bryan Johnson· Author
And so if you approach this problem and say the primary goal is existence and you build societal systems around that. Right now in the world we we go after wealth, power and status at any expense. We martyr ourselves.
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And so if you approach this problem and say the primary goal is existence and you build societal systems around that. Right now in the world we we go after wealth, power and status at any expense. We martyr ourselves.
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But in practical terms, this is why I I think that what we're doing is don't die is correct that when existence itself becomes the priority, we are no longer pawns and will be arbitrageed in, you know, for the systems winning and but so it's like such a big concept, but we play these micro games of the modern to try to earn our own status, power, respect within the the circles we run.