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A 1,000-year lifespan sounds like a superpower—until you realize time stops pressuring you, and society starts building new kinds of traps out of patience, memory, and inheritance.

In this episode, we explore what “near-immortality” would actually do to human life. Not just the personal side—motivation, regret, identity, relationships—but the systems that quietly assume we die: marriage, education, careers, wealth, pensions, politics, innovation, culture, even religion. When everyone has centuries to accumulate status, mistakes, and money, the future doesn’t automatically become wiser. It can become heavier.

We’ll walk through the timeline from the first psychological shifts to the long-run restructuring of power—ending with the hardest question: in a world where life is almost endless, what keeps a civilization moving?

Chapters:

1. Time stops hurting: urgency collapses, procrastination becomes a lifestyle
2. Regret compounds: one mistake can follow you for centuries
3. Youth stretches out: “being 20” lasts 100 years—and meaning gets weird
4. Relationships rewrite themselves: family, marriage, and friendship under 1,000-year pressure
5. Identity fractures: one person lives multiple “full lives” inside one body
6. Education breaks: when learning never ends, school can become a permanent holding room
7. Careers lose shape: expertise becomes blurry when everyone has 200 years of experience
8. Wealth hardens: compounding and inheritance turn time into an unfair weapon
9. Politics freezes: long-lived leaders, permanent networks, and experience monopolies
10. Culture stalls or loops: novelty runs out, language drifts, and art starts repeating
11. Belief systems crack: faith, meaning, and morality under a lifetime that never “closes”
12. Innovation slows: when there’s no deadline, progress can lose its engine
13. The end state: a stable, stratified world—or a society that chooses to shorten life again

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