Comment Re:Reality follows fiction (Score 2) 65
And the society itself seems to realize that at some level: theoretically the premise is deeply troubling because what of a society where people are profoundly unequal by birth; but in implementation there's precious little sign of 'meritocratic' squeeze-out (there's the one woman in the astronaut training program who isn't going to make the cut because she uses glasses; but is still in the training program for some reason?): just people getting hired based on a genetic test and the ongoing battle by the protagonist to carefully cover all traces of his DNA with replacements from the guy he is impersonating because his job performance won't actually matter if the geneticops enforcing the haves/have-nots distinctions aren't doing performance based evaluations.
As noted; using relatively weak scientific evidence to justify treating people with wealthy parents as though they are better than the rest is absolutely something we would do; we'd love a blood test for legacy admits; but as a movie about genetic engineering making people unequal, rather than a movie about people running a caste system loosely justified by genetic engineering, it really doesn't go much of anywhere.