poly: terminal spending

Robin Hanson:
> > The number of cryonics customers is very small (I am one of them), so
> > there is likely a lot of truth in this. Yet we spend huge amounts now
> > on medicine for people in their last year of life, . . . .

David Brin: [...]
> Your use of "we" above made me think that cryonics folks were spending
> the money on late phase treatments.

Perhaps Robin meant "we" as payers of taxes or insurance premia.

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