Cloning For Fun and Profit

Not only should the military clone people, rich people should do the same. Bill Gates might want to invest in cloning a huge personal army, so he will still have all of his power, no matter what happens to the economy. Not only would this protect him personally, but it would add to the number of super humans on the planet. The more super humans there are the better the chances our species will survive.

Cloning could also have amazing effects on the economy. When it becomes cheap enough the process of cloning will most likely be a hot commodity. Everyone could have a double of them growing in a lab. If you spend a few years addicted to smack, and you're at risk for a heat attack, you can just have a transplant.

You could engage in all sorts of self-destructive behavior, and when it started taking it's toll on your body, you can go to your clone for spare parts. Since the organs are identical to the ones you would have had, had you not become addicted to heroin, your body won't reject them. Eventually doctors might even be able to transplant your brain into the healthier, younger, undamaged body of your clone.

This would make it possible to extend life expectancies by many, many years. The world's population may have already hit 6 billion, but that's no reason we shouldn't extend the average life expectancy by say 100 years, or more. The famine, and plague caused by the impending gross overpopulation would only kill those who are too week to survive. The only people who will be able to afford this sort of surgery will be those who are rich, and therefor superior. It is called natural selection.

Aside from individuals cloning themselves, we should create generic clones. We could farm them. Companies could have huge clone breeding ranches, where clones would be genetically engineered and bread to be loyal, hard working, and trustworthy. Clones could be used to perform all of the manual labor that everyone hates to do.