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    Enhancement access will follow existing capital distribut... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Directed evolution toward post-humanity risks producing oppressive hierarchical societies

    Enhancement access will follow existing capital distribution, meaning post-human capacities concentrate among already-privileged classes per Pogge's systemic injustice framework.

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    • 1.Historical precedent: vaccines, internet, smartphones all showed initial luxury-good distribution before universal access, taking decades.
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    • 2.Enhancement markets will emerge privately first due to R&D costs, creating early-adopter advantage that compounds wealth inequality structurally.
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    • 3.Pogge's framework identifies how existing institutions systematically exclude the global poor; those same institutions govern biotech access.
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    • 1.Enhancement (especially cognitive) differs from prior tech: governments treat intelligence parity as national security, driving public investment.
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    • 2.Universal access precedent exists: some countries distribute advanced pharmaceuticals equally; policy choice, not capital alone, determines distribution.
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    • 3.Post-human enhancement may devalue traditional capital sources, creating incentives for broad access rather than artificial scarcity maintenance.
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