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    Medical What are some scientifically valid ways to increase your life expectancy?

    Don't smoke. Get 8 hours of sleep per night. Get some exercise but not too much. Eat a variety of foods and don't overeat. Avoid stress. Stay social. Live long.
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    Possibility of eliminating all the poors (by getting everyone rich)

    This seems like the most likely scenario that takes shape over the next 50-100 years. A small amount of extremely challenging intellectual work that employs just a fraction of society with virtually all of the manual labor becoming automated. Wealth gap will increase. Lots of welfare checks.
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    Is the Stock Market a Positive-Sum Game or a Ponzi Scheme?

    I don't think it's zero sum if you have a randomized portfolio of stocks from different sectors. In the case of a single stock, yes it's possible for it to have no value. But unless the entire market crashed all at once or there was no demand for goods and services (human extinction), certain...