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As if there wasn't enough inequality in the world, now the rich will be able to afford to make their offspring genetically superior to everyone else's. Have fu
by Mikeb85 9y ago
As if there wasn't enough inequality in the world, now the rich will be able to afford to make their offspring genetically superior to everyone else's. Have fun with a 1% that are literally overlords.
- literallycancer 9y agoIdeally we'd all improve together, but hey, I'm not going to let people like you stop me, you are right about that.
- biggerbistro 9y agoDo you really think you will be among the ones allowed at the top? Protip: if you were you wouldn't be here right now. We will all likely be denied access to the best technology and will quickly fall behind within a couple generations.
- literallycancer 9y agoHere? As in posting on the internet? Why not?
- biggerbistro 9y agoI of course have no sources to back this up (how would one even get such data?) but I suspect billionaires have better things to do than go e-slumming with those of us with fewer than 30 cars.
- gpawl 9y agohttps://www.reddit.com/user/martinshkreli/ https://www.reddit.com/user/martinshkreli/
- TallGuyShort 9y agoBillionaires? Perhaps. But aren't most of us on here taking a quick break from our Silicon Valley-like software engineering jobs that put us in or near the highest income 1% of the United States, and firmly within the highest income 1% of the world? I'm sure any significant medical advance that is remotely scalable will be available to most of us if our competitiveness and survival depends on it.
- zanny 9y agoThe tech isn't that expensive, it is the R&D into knowing what you are doing. Once we have "perfect" embryos cloning and implanting them will be an expense almost anyone in the world could afford, especially if global incomes in the poorest regions keep rising as they have been the last 20 years. The broader problem is that the educated and wealthy will probably either sterilize themselves or use birth control to avoid having "normal" children, whereas the poor either won't know, won't care, or won't be able to consistently afford it.