[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

Decorative bioroids could be quite popular as living servants among the wealthy elites of the Sol System, since only the middle class would be so tasteless as to have AI servants. With TL10 biotechnology, you could pay to have a wide variety of sapient servants created and trained to your specifications. In regions where they gain their freedom at the age of 18, wealthy elites could hire their former possessions as proper servants, creating a menagerie of exotic people to delight them.

For example, a properly wealthy individual could order a different type of avian servant each year. One year, they would be rooks, the second year, parrots, the third year, ducks, etc. The fact that each would cost a mint to create and train makes their existence a status symbol, as a household that could not afford to spend tens of millions on a novel crop of bioroid servants to add to their household every year is just not keeping up appearances.

This reminds me of the living toys in Blade Runner.