Jim Sharkey wrote: > > Well, I would imagine that such advances would only be available to > the wealthy, at least initially, possibly even for an entire > generation. In which case, children of the wealthy, who arguably > already have one leg up on the competition, would get yet another > tick in the "plus" column in terms of success, conceivably > concetrating wealth and power even more tightly to a select few. > Rich people seem quite selfish but not genetically selfish.
Why can't rich men [like those that get 1 Giga $] hire a thousand women and have one or two thousand heirs, spreading their genes? They could do it now or 200 years ago, with no technology, but they don't. They usually have one or no children. Modern rich women could also spread their eggs over a dozen host mothers. But they don't. Why would they change the pattern and worry about their genes? > I certainly don't mean to sound like an alarmist hack SF writer. > I'm just allowing for the possibility. > Maybe the trait that makes people rich is defective for the gene pool, and tends to eliminate itself :-) Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
