https://www.reddit.com/r/cryonics/comments/tbrqn0/why_dont_rich_people_buy_cryonics_membership/
Perennially great question. I read through the thread but didn't see my answer which is: Rich people want to preserve their wealth more than their life. Witness the perpetual trust. The perpetual trust is even used by rich cryonics people like Don Laughlin rather than make a donation to the general cryonics effort. It's because all cryonicists are individualists, not collectivists. They don't want their money going to the collective effort, even at the expense of their never being reanimated. They would rather believe that they, alone, can be reanimated and will have their money with them when reanimated.
It's an unsolvable paradox.
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