>- The companies you interact with all have easy access to everyone's DNA and can make decisions based on things like who is the most likely to get addicted to gambling.
Yes, that is exactly my point. In these hypothetical dystopias, this is going to apply to "everyone's DNA" and not just some subset of people. In order to fear volunteering your DNA, you need to fear a very specific level of dystopia in which this illegal DNA discriminating becomes common, but companies don't do anything illegal to acquire the DNA data.
It is like imagining that people could have escaped Nazi persecution if they just never admitted they were Jewish. Dystopias don't work like that. The evil people aren't going to give you a choice.
If we are going to live in a dystopia, it likely isn't going to be the Goldilocks dystopia in which just the right amount of evilness exists for this to be an issue.
Yes, that is exactly my point. In these hypothetical dystopias, this is going to apply to "everyone's DNA" and not just some subset of people. In order to fear volunteering your DNA, you need to fear a very specific level of dystopia in which this illegal DNA discriminating becomes common, but companies don't do anything illegal to acquire the DNA data.
It is like imagining that people could have escaped Nazi persecution if they just never admitted they were Jewish. Dystopias don't work like that. The evil people aren't going to give you a choice.
If we are going to live in a dystopia, it likely isn't going to be the Goldilocks dystopia in which just the right amount of evilness exists for this to be an issue.