You know: Peter Thiel — that notororius prince of darkness — wants to live forever, or at least for much longer than his allotted three score and ten. But why? Here’s one possible explanation:
The fantasy of immortality is thus inseparable from class. It is not simply about extending life; it is about extending domination. To live forever, for these ‘elites’ is to preserve their vice-like control over capital, data, and in a warped way, the very definition of what it means to be human. Thus these outlandish billionaire immortality projects function in some way as the biotechnological counterpart to offshore tax havens: both are mechanisms to insulate wealth and power from the natural processes of decay, redistribution, and change.
© Henning Bertram 2026