It's a simple question, but please give as thoughtful/detailed an answer as you can.

Really really really seriously think about your own life and your own experiences and the lives that you've witnessed and think about how advances in biotech/eugenics would actually affect the world and the lives in it.

There is a genetic scarcity. High IQ is scarce. Beauty is scarce. Incredible social skills are scarce. Height is scarce. Fantastic bone-structure is extremely scarce. Fantastic natural musculature is also extremely scarce (men/women work hard in the gym to emulate it).

Obviously resources/wealth are scarce too, but let's put that aside for now and focus on the genetics.

Question: What happens as you reduce this looks/intelligence scarcity, as might well happen in the coming decades?

I friended some old high-school friends on Facebook last night. Chatted with them; we're going to meet up soon. Scrolled through their Facebook pictures; stirred up incredibly profound thoughts/feelings/emotions in me. To see their pictures from their childhood to high school to high school graduation to college frosh to college to college graduation to their weddings...to see it all unfold over the years. To see their looks/faces/bodies transform/unfold/develop over the years. To see reversals of fortune as well as predictable successes/failures. It's profound when you're cut off from your old high-school cohort and you see their whole Facebook photo-album 10 years (!) later...it's like an amazing/beautiful time warp. All those beautiful faces with their smiles/emotions stick in my mind; they don't call it "Facebook" for nothing.

It's fucking weird to see all these modelesque babes posting sexy/provocative pics and then you see the name and your jaw drops and you realize that this is so-and-so's little sister who was 6 years old or something the last time you saw her...people grow up so fast...time moves so fucking fast...

I love seeing the family photos...people's childhood pictures together...seeing sibling-trios takes photos when they're toddlers and then becoming beautiful thriving young men/women...developing and growing and transforming before your eyes on Facebook...

There are at least two cases that totally refute TRP doctrine. For one, my friend "Bob" landed a beautiful girlfriend. So jealous! Bob has nothing going for him looks/status wise. He is stick-thin, short, balding...he is cute in a "little-boy cute" way. No special charisma or anything. Don't get me wrong; he's a nice guy. Anyway, he landed a stunner. Made me jealous as fuck and think, "How did he land this woman? What the fuck? And what the fuck is wrong with me?" (Well, I have massive brain issues so that's what's wrong with me, but you understand the profound envious/butthurt/dissonant emotion that I'm trying to convey...)

For another, one of the stunners of my high-school cohort (tall, blonde, gorgeous, straight-A student, "the picture of health," singer/musician, did Toastmasters, etc.) married a totally random skinny/short/balding weatherman out west.

In both these cases, the SMVs just didn't match at all. It's almost as if Blue Pill fantasies came true for these two lucky sons of bitches in both cases; they far outkicked their coverage and it looks like some magical "true love" trumped whatever "SMV-analysis" you could try to make about whether they "should" be together. Fucking weird.

In general, the high-IQ people with good EFs (executive functioning in their brain; what I lack) kicked ass in business school and med school and went on to be successful motherfuckers killing it at life. In general, the beautiful people ended up with other beautiful people and are now having beautiful (?) babies.

One thing stands out: if you look at the beautiful people at the parties/graduations/etc., it seems like their nonverbals radiate a certain emotion that the other people's nonverbals simply lack. Maybe I'm a shallow motherfucker; maybe this is all in my head. But it seems like the gorgeous blonde with the perfect face/hair/body radiates happiness in a way that the girls around her don't.

Is that emotion an objective thing or a relative thing? Would that smile be any less luminous if the other women there were as beautiful as she was?

To what extent are our feelings, emotions, self-conceptions, identities comparative/relative? To what extent is our happiness comparative/relative?

If everyone were tall/smart/beautiful nobody would be tall/smart/beautiful. What would be the result if everyone had beautiful faces/bodies? I suspect that everyone would just be happy. Why not? Doesn't it feel good to be tall/smart/beautiful regardless of whether other people are as well?

How much happiness would diamonds bring us if diamonds were a non-scarce commodity? Wouldn't they still be beautiful?

I mean, I'm 6'4". I like being tall; it's brought me a lot of happiness in my life (in a fucked up egoistic way). But if everyone were that height then I would not have the same psychological self-conception about being tall and the same identity that I have about being the "tall" guy (and whatever fucked-up superiority that I get from it). Or suppose that everyone were 7 feet tall. Then I would be the short guy at 6'4", right? It's all relative...

The 140 IQ person forms an identity around being the "smart" person and derives happiness from that. If everyone in their high school had an IQ of 200 and they had an IQ of 140 then they would be the dumb one...

The gorgeous stunner derives happiness from the way people treat her and from liking the way she looks in the mirror. That is her "body percept" to use the psychological term. (The same way that being tall/beautiful/superior is part of my "body percept.") But imagine that everyone in her school were hot. How much satisfaction would her appearance bring her? I mean, it's not relative in terms of her facial proportions/features/symmetry, the thickness/volume/lustrousness of her hair (and color of her hair), her body, and so on. But it also is relative because I think that where we stand hierarchically is embedded in our psyches and self-conceptions such that everything is deeply deeply thoroughly comparative...

My high-school friends who have triumphed thanks to their charisma/brains/beauty...they owe it to the fact that their traits are scarce. They can count their lucky stars that they're in the top percentile when it comes to X/Y/Z. It's fucked up, but the truth is simple: they would not have the career/relationship/happiness opportunities that they have if the average person weren't so ugly/dumb/broken.

And in the future, as biotech advances, there might be fewer and fewer ugly/dumb/broken people. So what will happen? What will happen to people's body percepts, psyches, self-conceptions, identities, opportunities, happiness, and lives?

Edit: Imagine that you flooded our labor-market with the world's best and brightest from India/China. They work they dicks off over there. Imagine the strain that would put on people trying to get jobs over here. Would my high-school friends, revelling on Facebook with their awesome careers as doctors/businesspeople, still have the careers that they have? Would they even make the cut? It's all relative. We have a lot of walls that we have put up to keep out the Third World workers and create a little bubble to protect ourselves. My high-school prom date is a dentist; we have walls put up to protect her career...