There are plenty of people who already think of their kids as products.
Here’s the rub: Nature vs. nurture. I know plenty of kids who hit 6 feet tall when they were eleven who hated basketball with every fibre of their being. I knew this one kid – we called him “House” because that’s how big and strong he was, who wouldn’t join a single sport because he thought organized sports were stupid. He’d rather be coding. And there are plenty of really smart people who for one reason or another don’t become Mensans with a Ph.D.
You can’t program a person with DNA, you can only give them a list of physical attributes.
I mean, I can think of a bunch of actors who, if you were picking things off a shelf, should have been attractive, but the puzzle just didn’t work out: Ron Perlman, for instance. Good bone structure, strong jaw, nice eyes, full head of hair, and the guy looks like a damn gorilla.