Ending death also ends taxes. Even bridging taxes like the Mikhail Bakunin death tax and Emma Goldman luxury goods and services tax. The first few days uploads may well provide for the tardy majority from their private properties left behind. There is a cost recreating items digitally in the Matrix and Holodeks - however that cost may be offset by savings in other areas and the opening up of new economic sources of wealth.
Uploading solves so many outstanding problems its beginning to look like Guth inflation.
That amazing theory has a small problem with the halting problem.
Uploading has a similar glitch called luxury communism
But you knew that.
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