I'm not an American so I have not witnessed the exact situation being outlined in the article, but as I was born in the Australian countryside and grew up in th

I'm not an American so I have not witnessed the exact situation being outlined in the article, but as I was born in the Australian countryside and grew up in the closest thing that Sydney has to a ghetto, I do think I have a grasp on seeing this from the inside, and I think I've seen the kind of people who largely result; the best summary to me is "Ignorant, and proud of it". I find the notion of organising a social structure around making these people feel better about their uselessness abhorrent, I find the notion that those distributed amongst them capable of greater things being sentenced to living their lives in the immediate presence of these people, as a close-knit good old fashioned "community" as a pretty good argument for euthanasia. And in case I come across too much someone swimming deep in the dunning-kruger effect, if I am or were afflicted with the same unfortunate situation with regards to my abilities as the group in question, I would still not wish that anyone who had the capacity to make the world better ought to be held back on account of not wounding my pride. I live in the world after all. Feudal serfs had it a lot worst than the modern ignorant and proud of it, and I believe this is largely because the world is a much better place on account of the very meritocratic values the original article decries.