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Originally Posted by Astromancer
Take the Transhumanism goal of extending the human lifespan. Assume a treatment that would cost about 5000 dollars over ten years that would add several decades to the average human life. However, if a person lack access to clean water and reasonable santitation, the benefits are lost. Most of humanity couldn't gain the benefits. The political struggle over access to the treatment would force transformation.
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That's OK, people who don't have access to clean water and reasonable sanitation probably can't afford 5 large for a life extension treatment in the first place. Frankly I'm not seeing the transformation here. Yeah, the people from the poor areas would be disgruntled and envious...but aren't they already?
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If you can restructure the human body freely, allowing a fat, clumsy, bald, guy (like me) to be slim, graceful (massive neurological work there), handsome as a movie star, then you can transform anybody. What would ethnicity, race, or gender, mean, if you can change your body type more easily than getting your kitchen remodeled? In the West, we can deal with this, in much of the rest of the world, it would be explosive.
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The neat part would be the areas where socio-economic pressures would be on poor men to switch sexes so they can join the harems of rich men. Well maybe not.