Wednesday, March 12, 2008
"Genetically Rich" Get Richer, Poor Get Poorer
If only the rich can afford to enhance genetics, will there be an increasing gap in the genetic haves and have-nots? Take a look at a modern example: better looking people get hired more often for higher paying jobs. This phenomenon is known as Lookism. This shows that the "genetically superior" (this term should be used with extreme caution, but I think we all know what I'm getting at here) are more likely to have more money, and thus have better access to new genetic modification techniques as they become available. Might this become a repeating chain that feeds on itself? Is the result a genetic upper and under class? Unlike the previous post, this issue is one that applies to both germline and non-germline genetic modifications.
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