>...I would also accept genetic therapy clinics and cybernetics.

Heh, I can't remember if I posted about this on the Games forum here, or somewhere else, but I remember having a discussion about Cyberpunk 2077 and how the incredibly effective medical technology in that setting sort of de-fangs its dystopian pretentions a bit. I mean, at the start of the game your character is just a broke-ass {street kid|disgraced corpo|renegade nomad}, and you get your eyeballs replaced in one of the earliest cutscenes. The operation takes like five minutes and the recovery time afterward is... oh yeah, zero. And yeah, the doctor floats you a loan for it, but even at that, it's not a very big one. Same with having limbs and major organs replaced later on in the game. It's easy, it's quick, and it's not "I own my own volcano lair" expensive.

With medical tech like that available to even the lowest rungs of the admittedly-fucked-up society, I'm not completely convinced living in that society wouldn't be worth it, which is clearly what you're supposed to think...

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