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Nutritional deficiencies are interesting because to kill a child it takes a lot. So it's just the tip of the iceberg. Problem is all the children who survive
by aaron695 7y ago
Nutritional deficiencies are interesting because to kill a child it takes a lot.
So it's just the tip of the iceberg.
Problem is all the children who survive have retarded IQ's (lack of iodine can be -10 IQ points) they grow up and stay poor and have more children who will die due to their sustained poverty.
I really have no idea why we pump money into schools when we can target 0-2 year olds and educate them for life. You can't fix lost IQ points later on no matter what you do.
- djrobstep 7y agoPeople are stuck in poverty because capitalism forcibly inflicts poverty on them, not because of "IQ". Poverty is a enforced policy choice, not a personal failing.
- squirrelicus 7y agoThat is so catastrophically false I can't even. Capitalism has empirically been, by several orders of magnitude, the most powerful force in the world for eradication of poverty. But hey, when you define poverty by relative income levels instead of absolute levels of depravation, you can say what you said. But you are forgetting the tragic suffering of the historical poor and those under socialism, feudalism, and pretty much all of history for all time. Today's $10k/yr poor live way, way, way better than the hanseatic merchants of yore. There is no enforced policy that keeps people down. People just look far down from above, even if the tide is actually, in reality, lifting all extraordinarily rapidly. Edit: sings along "I've got plenty of gold, and I'm standing in line for a loaf of bread..." https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8