🇾 🇪 🇿 🇿 🇪 🇾@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 9 days agoWhen rich people can edit their kids DNA won't that just lock everyone else out and create a new class?message-squaremessage-square248linkfedilinkarrow-up1332arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1322arrow-down1message-squareWhen rich people can edit their kids DNA won't that just lock everyone else out and create a new class?🇾 🇪 🇿 🇿 🇪 🇾@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 9 days agomessage-square248linkfedilinkfile-text
CRISPR and other tools aren’t science fiction anymore. If the wealthy get there first, what happens to everyone else?
minus-squareProfessorProteus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 days agoI do wish the ultra wealthy would just become morlocks and go underground forever.
minus-squareSkyezOpen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 days agoHate to tell you but the morlocks weren’t the rich in that story.
minus-squareProfessorProteus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoIt’s been a while since I read it, and now I’m ashamed because it’s one of my favorite books 😂
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 days agoThe wealthy became the Eloi in that story, haha. You’re supposed to want to eat them.
minus-squareProfessorProteus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoYou’re right, huge brain fart… I still wish they would all leave us alone forever, analogy or not
I do wish the ultra wealthy would just become morlocks and go underground forever.
Hate to tell you but the morlocks weren’t the rich in that story.
It’s been a while since I read it, and now I’m ashamed because it’s one of my favorite books 😂
The wealthy became the Eloi in that story, haha. You’re supposed to want to eat them.
You’re right, huge brain fart… I still wish they would all leave us alone forever, analogy or not