>>4261078 (OP)I don't think genetic engineering will ever leave the hands of the elite because the powerful need to hold a monopoly on good genes while encouraging the wagies to be retarded and do drugs otherwise the scarcity of these eugenic traits will be reduced thereby making them less valuable, plus more intelligent and strong people who aren't part of their in-group could pose a threat to their power. People of middling-above average intelligence are becoming less needed since artificial intelligence can automate most of their tasks and so all you really need is a bunch of double digit IQ proles to do the trades & buy the goods and <1% of the population to do the thinking, talking and designing