Редактирование: Oligarchic transhumanism (раздел)

== As a futurist concern ==
The extent to which this scenario must be avoided is a differentiator between [[Libertarian transhumanism|libertarian transhumanists]] to which it is of concern, and [[Social futurism|social futurists]]/[[Democratic transhumanism|democratic transhumanists]] to whom it is a more significant concern.

Modern headlines tell stories of the super rich 'buying [[immortality]]', creating a distrust of such technologies.<ref>[http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/survival-of-the-richest-how-londons-superrich-are-trying-to-buy-immortality-a3118071.html Survival of the richest: how London's super-rich are trying to buy immortality]</ref><ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3371681/Channel-4-reveals-bizarre-ways-rich-try-defy-death.html DNA testing, £24,000-a-week retreats and FREEZING their heads: TV show reveals the bizarre ways the rich try to defy death (but some methods are called 'utter nonsense') ]</ref>

<blockquote>Do you want to live in a world where [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch Rupert Murdoch] could live forever? - criticism of [[life extension]] on Reddit</blockquote>

Concern are often expressed about the potential for [[social statis]] around matters such as gender, race, religious conflict, class and other hierarchical inequalities that could significantly slow or cease development in a world where the elite rarely die.<ref>[User:Deku-shrub|Deku-shrub] - Various offline and online conversations with humanists</ref>

In ''Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age''<ref>Times Books, 2003</ref>, environmentalist [[Bill McKibben]] argues against enhancement and [[life extension]]. Conservative pundit [[Francis Fukuyama]] called transhumanism "the world’s most dangerous idea" in the journal Foreign Policy, elaborating, "The first victim of trans-humanism might be equality."<ref>[https://ce399eugenics.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/immortality-2-0-a-silicon-valley-insider-looks-at-californias-transhumanist-movement/ Immortality 2.0: A Silicon Valley Insider Looks at California’s Transhumanist Movement]</ref>

The [[Italian Transhumanist Manifesto]] explicitly rejects such accusations:<ref>[http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/print/2520 Italian Transhumanist Manifesto]</ref>

<blockquote>''The accusation of plutocratic elitism'' - According to this critique, transhumanists are elite members of the upper middle classes, who plan to enhance themselves at a mental and physical level, becoming immortal demigods, a new superhuman species, in a best-case scenario ignoring the rest of their communities, and in the worst aiming at enslaving them.</blockquote>