Minor note: In that case, you wouldn’t just need fast, safe, cheap, and easy skin dye, you’d need similar change to be available for at least faces and hair and possibly for skeletons—it might be easier for people to just live as computer programs than to do this physically.
I don’t want to dissolve the richness of the subcultures (and I don’t think that’s possible, in any case). I want to dissolve the correlation.
Minor note: In that case, you wouldn’t just need fast, safe, cheap, and easy skin dye, you’d need similar change to be available for at least faces and hair and possibly for skeletons—it might be easier for people to just live as computer programs than to do this physically.