Gah, just posted a sibling comment echoing the same thought. Do you think there's a revolving door between the Sci-Fi Writers Guild and the "Let's build billionaires a Torment Nexus" think tank?

Except Altered Carbon mostly waves the real difficulty away by talking about something like "downloading" a mind into a body.

I don't remember there being anything about growing replacement clones, but it would make sense given the other tech in the story.