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 It wasn't quite the same but there was an old 'Twilight Zone' where a
 guy basically swapped years of life for a large amount of money.
 Would a 25 year-old trade bodies w/ a 50 year-old in exchange for mega-bucks?

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> On Sat, 9/19/15, Jim Vassilakos <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [TML]
> Virtuality and its SocialConsequences (long)
>  To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
>  Date: Saturday, September 19, 2015, 3:22 PM
>
>  Yeah, this
>
> is a good question, but given the amazing advances in
>  technology just during our own lives, I'm
> more reluctant
>  to speculate on what
> isn't possible than what is.
>
> Nonetheless, and I may be mistaken about this, I seem to
>  remember that in "Altered Carbon",
> the novel that
>  first introduced me to the
> idea of people
>  "resleeving" from
> one body to another, Morgan
>  speculated that
> poor people would rent out their bodies, and
>  there may have even been some mention of
> convicts being
>  forced to do the same.
> It's been some years since I read
>  it,
> so I can't remember the details, but by not allowing
>  blank-brained clones, the technology raises
> additional
>  ethical concerns.
>