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At first it will, however you have to realize that there's a limit to how much genetic editing can improve someone, if technology keeps on growing it will eventually advance so much that this limit becomes accessible by the working class, which the elite is motivated to to by the profit of enhancing billions of people vs. a couple million rich ones.CRISPR editing technology will introduce a whole slew of problems related to a whole slew of disparity problems. It open the flood gates to historically unprecedented levels of social stratification and class hierarchy. Given enough time and gradual editing of any given population, you will have a very strict upper class and lower class, based purely on genetics.
It already is this way in a loose sense with social circles, cliques and subgroups forming out of class and genetic level similarity. You'll never see a White, rich, LA chad, for example, be socially associated with a ghetto Mexican manlet. It just doesn't happen for a ton of reasons in addition to what's already mentioned, but those are the main reasons.
Designer gene editing will magnify current social and economic problems, by literally creating a synthetic species of humans. Biologists might even create a seperate taxonomic classification to prevent the socio-political problems associated with calling GM humans a different species, namely, racism (though nobody seems to give a shit about classism). It'll functionally be wordplay, but with enough editing it will be a different species of human.
You have to think in scales of hundreds, if not thousands of years, when thinking of introducing and implementing new technologies in the world. You have to think about all of the variables than be affected. Gene editing will bring more overall harm than good. Yes, it will suck for people who suffer due to the negative lottery of improbable, random mutations, I'll admit, but the problems of the technology far outweigh the benefits.