Originally Posted by
Rockphed
McDonalds is successful because going in you know what you are supposed to get, not because they are high quality. The transhumanists here want to have predictable outcomes. I do, however, agree that "McDonalds" is the wrong analogy; what they want is "dental work". Dental work is cheap because dentists do the same procedures all the time.
That said, I am not convinced that we, the readers, are supposed to see these ladies as reasonable. Remember, one of them genetically modified her son to have no hair anywhere on his body. Another changes her professed identity at least once a week. Then there is the whole "lets make work a group mind" thing. If I was to assign a defining attribute to these women it would be "does not think things through all the way before starting them".