It could lead to amazing advances in the distant future but in the near future it just means finding unwilling donors fast! Our society once again is not mature for such technology
Most of the west is going to be fucked. We, in the west, are optimizing towards more profit. Poor get poorer every year and rich get richer. We lead multiple wars which we finance with public money. The profits go to the rich again.
China is confucian, and, unlike the west, they value a different thing.
The rich seem to forget that one can not take the riches to the grave. All the great art that explains it is forgotten and never looked at.
If in the past the rich subsidized building churches and schools and housing for the poor, nowadays rich just rake more money. They never have enough.
I honestly don't know how uber drivers can even make a living with the price of gas and upkeep for the car [being as hight as it is]. How many hours a day do they work? I know there is a 12 hour limit at Uber but you could continue to Lift until the next day. Then what?
So they drivers spend their life Ubering, not learning new skills or anything and next thing you know - AI takes their jobs.
All the great art should teach us that we can't take riches to the grave, it's too bad that this is being forgotten.
Then again, may be they already figured out how to make their lives meaningfully longer. I often think what drives 80 year old Bidens and Trumps to live the stressful POTUS life.
And I can think of only one incentive. Weird thoughts, but otherwise the dots just don't connect.