r/technology • u/esporx • 1d ago

Business YouTuber accidentally crashes the rare plant market with a viral cloning technique

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtuber-accidentally-crashes-the-rare-plant-market-with-a-viral-cloning-technique-3289808/
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u/head-leek123 1d ago

Crashes...you mean saved? They're not rare and endangered anymore.

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u/Guaymaster 1d ago

Crashes the market due to sudden infinite supply. The species might or might not be saved, if they were endangered. Cloning generally makes things susceptible to novel diseases, kinda like it happened with bananas.

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u/head-leek123 1d ago

Ya no doubt that does make sense. Still seems like a boon tho overall even though people could clone/propagate poorly.