The Economics of Clones

[mrsticky005]

What do you think the economy would be like if people were cloned?

I think it would be drastically different.

1. Employment. To keep things simple the most qualified person would
get the job. With clones you can more than one "most qualified" copy
of the same person. Yes they still have to be educated but if one
can learn the job then the rest certainly have the potential to.
Also depending on our morals, clones may be expendable.
This could greatly affect how military and our potentially dangerous
operations would be done. Of course a lot of what were once jobs
done by people are now replaced by machines. But with clones
it will be people replaced by...well people more or less.

2. How would people obtain clones? Would we buy them like a dog?

3. Cloneburgers?

[Nick Tasogare]

Let's ask James Madrox, better known as Multiple Man.

[Kreegah!!!]

I saw a film on something like this. Granted, the clones were mostly for organs, but in the meantime they were poorly housed and given shite jobs. The process of obtaining a clone was involved. Need some cash for one thing.

[Nick Tasogare]

Oh I saw a movie about it too. Scarlett Johanssen was in it, and like, they all thought they were the last people alive to have survived something and they lived in a facility, but in actuality they were clones of rich people who needed organ transplants.

[mrsticky005]

Oh I saw a movie about it too. Scarlett Johanssen was in it, and like, they all thought they were the last people alive to have survived something and they lived in a facility, but in actuality they were clones of rich people who needed organ transplants.

Couldn't they just genetically engineer clones to not care?

[Nick Tasogare]

Couldn't they just genetically engineer clones to not care?

I doubt it. I mean, they're still human with human minds.

And they didn't, because the clones broke out and were like 'wt/f?'

[Blind Uchiha]

There was an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie called "The Seventh Day." It was very intellectual with all the parts about him and his clone blowing up the company that was performing said cloning. xD

Cloning humans is supposedly possible - just very expensive and illegal. At this point, the economics of cloning wouldn't exist due to only the very rich being able to pay for said process. "The Seventh Day" also stated that cloning could be used for immortality. This point, aside from a means of actually transferring a person's conscience, has problems due to cloned cell's inheriting the "age" or amount of cell divisions from it's original. If a person were to be cloned using cells from when they were fifty, their clone although appearing young, would be growing from the cells of a fifty year old and his lifespan would last accordingly.

[mrsticky005]

I doubt it. I mean, they're still human with human minds.

And they didn't, because the clones broke out and were like 'wt/f?'

Yeah but they are cloned humans. They can be genetically altered.

[tsuki]

Oh I saw a movie about it too. Scarlett Johanssen was in it, and like, they all thought they were the last people alive to have survived something and they lived in a facility, but in actuality they were clones of rich people who needed organ transplants.
It is called "The Island"

[White Zetsu]

if cloning was a major thing (cloning has been achieved to a certain degree, most clones have genetic defects however also very expensive and needs a donated uterus) we would use clones for organ transplants, for armies, and to do jobs that were too dangerous for "people" the clones would be like flesh and blood robots, and the would most likely be slaves, if they weren't, they would be treated as below the rest of society, like African Americans in the first half of the 20th century.(not myopinion on how clones should be treated but theyd be treated like that until govenments passed laws like about the Afro americans) Cloning is able too be done now, i know a story about a rich coulple who cloned their dog

[Kreegah!!!]

Oh I saw a movie about it too. Scarlett Johanssen was in it, and like, they all thought they were the last people alive to have survived something and they lived in a facility, but in actuality they were clones of rich people who needed organ transplants.

Saw that, too. Mine had that Pirate lass in it, err... Keira??? Knightly??. It was in some cases far more depressing and cruel than the Johanssen one.

[ItachiAnbu]

I think we'd run into some pretty big moral issues onve we started cloning humans.

If Star Wars movies 2 & 3 have taught us nothing else, it's that:
1. George Lucas is an excellent Producer, but a not-so-great director.
2. Samuel L. Jackson likes the color purple.
3. Clones have issues.

Engineering a new sub-human species would bring with it its own problems, showcased in parts of the novel "Brave New World." Also, as shown in "Neon Genesis: Evangelion," trying to turn humans into a more advanced species brings with it its own complications. Crazy stuff. bo.o"

My thoughts are, if we try to change our geonome, we're missing the beat. Would that make our music any groovier, or our love any more passionate? If we made a list of all the things in the world that really mattered to me, money just isn't one of them. So to me, the economic advantages of producing engineered humans is irrelevant. b:)

[Bacon]

Depends on the clones, would this clone need to be raised from birth or could the original person's thoughts,experiences,and knowledge be ninja'd automatically into the clone?