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How many people do you know truly willing to endure a lifetime of inferiority and subordination for "the greater good"? Get real.

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But that’s exactly the life you and me already live, and have come to terms with (I hope?). We’re never going to be rich and famous. So nobody had a choice to begin with.

That's not quite true. We are only rendered inferior by capital, or by athletic ability, a skill, a talent. I was responding to the prospect of something all encompassing which to me is what man-made genetic superiority suggests.

Isn’t that a bit naive? Unless you’re born rich, you’re chances of obtaining wealth are extremely slim.

I get where you’re coming from, but whether the barrier is 20 meters or infinitely high doesn’t matter in practice, because I can’t jump neither…

You already live in that world.

Not by choice

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