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In an era where the rich are only getting richer, soon they may be getting Better, faster, and stronger with biological enhancement, leaving the rest of us behind.

         Something that sounds like the premise to roughly 12 million different young adult novels, the idea of the rich genetically engineering and implanting enhancing technology may sound about as far fetched as a government deciding that having one hundred teens kill each other would be a good idea.
However, as more and more research is done on genetic engineering, soon the gap between regular people and trust fund babies will only be widened when they get yet more advantages; in the not so far future, the rich may be stronger, faster, and smarter than the rest of us by using their wealth.

         Most people know that one kid in school with rich parents that liked to flaunt their expensive clothes, high end phone, etc. Now imagine that kid as a bronze skinned demigod with an enhanced brain and muscles. Much worse, isn't it? It was bad enough when Richie Rich looked like the rest of us but with a higher thread count, we don't need for his parents to have decided they wanted a Heracles for a son. Naturally, this is an exaggeration, public school kids aren't that rich, but it highlights yet another upcoming case of the Haves v.s. Have Nots.

Look at this guy; he's probably rich enough to buy new airpods when their batteries die.

           Don't get me wrong, human enhancement is perfectly fine, and is the next "natural" step in technological progress. Blaming new technology for problems in society is a major Boomer move, and we all know how well that is going for them. But we are coming up to a period where those who can / whose parents could afford these enhancements have an even bigger lead on those who can't afford a yacht inside the pool on the deck of a larger yacht.

          These private school kids will become the new standard, and until those technologies become cheap enough for the common man (roughly several decades after the private school kids transcend this physical plane and leave us their Dyson spheres). An athlete without artificial blood and antelope legs has a significant disadvantage over those who do, and because those who do have those are rich, we can bet that they won't be disqualified from sporting events for long.

Tell me the word "Bio-Hacker" isn't cool without lying.

          Either way, we're getting closer to the premise of Cyberpunk anyways, which is always something I support, loss of morality be damned; It's just too damn cool

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Dickinson, Kevin. “Baleful Biomedical Technologies.” Big Think, Big Think, 5 Oct. 2018, bigthink.com/technology-innovation/fear-future-technology?rebelltitem=5#rebelltitem5.

Pearlman, Alex. “The Ethics of Experimentation: Ethical Cybernetic Enhancements.” Medium, Medium, 12 July 2017, medium.com/@lexikon1/the-ethics-of-experimentation-ethical-cybernetic-enhancements-48f9ad991769.

Miah, Andy, and University of Salford. “Ethics Issues Raised by Human Enhancement.” OpenMind, www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/articles/ethics-issues-raised-by-human-enhancement/.

Masci, David. “Human Enhancement: Scientific and Ethical Dimensions of Genetic Engineering, Brain Chips and Synthetic Blood.” Pew Research Center Science & Society, Pew Research Center, 16 Jan. 2019, www.pewresearch.org/science/2016/07/26/human-enhancement-the-scientific-and-ethical-dimensions-of-striving-for-perfection/.

Geier, Thom. “Disney's Animated 'Hercules' to Flex as Stage Musical This Summer.” TheWrap, 6 Feb. 2019, www.thewrap.com/hercules-disney-stage-musical-public-theater/.

Honoroff, Marshall. “Cyberpunk 2077 Preview.” Tomsguide, 2019, www.tomsguide.com/news/cyberpunk-2077-release-date-trailer-gameplay.