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What if your parents chose a genome for a career that became obsolete? You could have been engineered to be the world's best buggy-whip maker, but if no one wa
by chiph 11y ago
What if your parents chose a genome for a career that became obsolete? You could have been engineered to be the world's best buggy-whip maker, but if no one wants buggy-whips anymore (and they know you were targeted for that particular skill set from before birth), would you be employable in a different field?
Because buggy-whip making is in your genes, and that'd be tough to overcome.
- rtkwe 11y agoThat's not a problem we're likely to face though. Beyond encoding a physical dependance on some facet or condition of a job, there's very little we can conceivably do genetically to lock someone into just one job. Learnable skills rather than raw genetic aptitude are the requirements for most jobs anyways.
- cryoshon 11y agoNature already chose your genome to excel at hunting animals in groups and gathering berries off of the ground. I'm guessing your full time occupation involves neither of those things, even under very broad definitions. We're extremely adaptable.