[Adraghast]

Further devaluation of our holistic humanity. We already define ourselves largely by the functions we perform in society, but at least current class distinctions are still mostly social. Imagine how much worse it would be if people could literally be bred for certain functions. An engineer will always be a engineer because their traits were optimized for that. A ditch digger will always be a ditch digger because their parents couldn’t afford the engineer package at Build-A-Baby.

I can think of few worlds more dystopian than one where there’s a causal, quantifiable relationship between wealth and biological superiority.

[causality0]

Intelligence and ability already have a much weaker correlation with wealth and success than familial wealth and sheer luck do. Also, why would one genetic modification be any more expensive than another? This is going to happen anyway, sooner or later. The "oh no it will make rich people richer" argument could be applied to a good chunk of all the technologies ever invented, from automobiles to the internet.

[int3]

The fact that there isn't a causal relationship from wealth to biological superiority is the cause of so many of our problems! Imagine if all the people who got positions via nepotism were actually good at their jobs...