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Such policies would be incredibly unpopular, so you would need a true tyrant to make it happen. And even then, genetic editing would be a very expensive and slo
by sothatsit 11mo ago
Such policies would be incredibly unpopular, so you would need a true tyrant to make it happen. And even then, genetic editing would be a very expensive and slow option compared to just regular forms of oppression. Can that tyrant keep power for the decades it will take for them to get their subservient work-force?
It seems very unlikely that poorer countries with dictators would have the skilled workforce, competence, and resources to pull this off. Perhaps some wealthy authoritarian states like the UAE could do it, but it would still require a massive effort for it to happen. And why bother when they can just import labour instead?
- fruitworks 11mo agoSuch policies will be popular as long as eugenics-apoligists like yourself exist. Gene editing is not slow at all compared to breeding programs of chattel slavery, and it is not subject to short-term economic and military conditions like ordinary dictatorships are. Once it is unlocked, you have a pathway to creating an underclass that can NEVER revolt. Poor countries can just outsource the task to the first world in the same way they outsource surveilance today. Bred slaves are more subserviant and better workers, 4/5 genetic engineers agree!