Ugly In The Morning posted:

There’s another big difference between the book meths and the show meths that was a total wasted opportunity on the show. The book meths aren’t just old because they have the resources to keep sleeving- in the books, basically anyone can get a sleeve if they want one. It may be a lovely synth, or it may be mortgaged with all the horrifying repo that implies if you miss payments, but you can get one. The thing is, most people get tired of living after two or three go-rounds, and then they just get spun up for holidays and family events, and then do that less and less as they become more and more disconnected. The meths are people so convinced of their own importance they can’t accept a world without them in it and they just keep going. Yeah, they accumulate vast resources over their many lifetimes but that’s a result and not a cause. I think that’s a way more interesting thing than “they live forever ‘cause they’re rich”.