>The dragon fable is emotional, but it doesn't address any of the questions of what a "post-dragon" world of inevitable gerontocracy would look like. If bodies don't fail, that doesn't automatically mean brains wouldn't decay. Will the old people in power remain open to new ideas and challenges? Do we really want immortal Bezos and Zuckerberg expanding their empires in perpetuity?

We already have a gerontocracy, and Bezos and Zuckerberg already have empires. Blaming a fantasy of immortality for the problems of real-life capitalism or democratic decay makes no sense.

If your house is falling down from mold and termites, you don't blame the future house, you blame the damn mold.