Early Exit
by Daisy Ginsberg
by Daisy Ginsberg
Would you trade Alzheimer's for breast augmentation or a luxury cruise?
With an ageing population and an overextended NHS, you may find yourself alone, geriatric and diseased in your home, discovering new forms of "Care in the Community", ordering your food by rescanning barcodes on empty tins of spam and using a webcam to be diagnosed by your GP.
So why not choose a cash windfall and a shorter life? Post Credit Crunch, Genetic Credit has given us unprecedented purchasing power. Gamble on your risky future, and opt for Early Exit: you can eliminate the risk of inherited disease and receive a refund for all the expenses you would have run up.
Your life might be enhanced - but at what cost?
Your one remaining asset isn't worth much as elements or harvestables, but as live tissue, you're worth $45,000,000, with your DNA banking in at $9,700,000
Mandatory genetic testing at birth establishes your disease risk factors to create a futures market around your body, a microeconomy expressed as a Genetic Credit Rating
You can improve (or damage) your Rating through lifelong surveillance of credit cards, gym usage, postcode, prescriptions
The value of your Genetic Credit determines your annual payments for the NHS, life insurance, mortgage, pension and more
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