But the Unmodified people would do the job almost as well for allot less pay due to being desperate.

But which jobs? We agree that the unmodified would be great in low-skilled and replaceable work - which is what the movie shows them doing.

But for any work that values higher skill over lower skill, it’s a clear win for the modified. They’re overall smarter, stronger, have better vision, etc. Almost all of the most important jobs in society (doctors, engineers, etc.) would go to the modified people, especially as they become more pervasive in society and schools are increasingly dominated by modified students (leaving far fewer opportunities for unmodified students to go to good colleges and grad schools).

Fundamentally, if you ask someone if they want a life-saving surgery performed by a cheap surgeon or a good surgeon, they’re going to pick the latter.

And, as the top of society is increasingly dominated by modified people, unmodified people are naturally going to get discouraged and try less. Since it’s being drilled into them from day one that they can’t compete. Even if people would be willing to accept an unmodified doctor who’s “good enough” and cheaper than modified doctors, there just wouldn’t be that many unmodified people who’d try to hack medical school after being told there’s no point.