🇾 🇪 🇿 🇿 🇪 🇾@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agoWhen rich people can edit their kids DNA won't that just lock everyone else out and create a new class?message-squaremessage-square243linkfedilinkarrow-up1325arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1315arrow-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 · 2 days agomessage-square243linkfedilinkfile-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-up5·2 days agoI do wish the ultra wealthy would just become morlocks and go underground forever.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 days agoThe wealthy became the Eloi in that story, haha. You’re supposed to want to eat them.
minus-squareProfessorProteus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoYou’re right, huge brain fart… I still wish they would all leave us alone forever, analogy or not
minus-squareSkyezOpen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoHate to tell you but the morlocks weren’t the rich in that story.
minus-squareProfessorProteus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoIt’s been a while since I read it, and now I’m ashamed because it’s one of my favorite books 😂
I do wish the ultra wealthy would just become morlocks and go underground forever.
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
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 😂