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> Could we just harness the power of the IQ120+ people and feed all the rest of the population? Sure, if you could organize them and direct them without too mu

> Could we just harness the power of the IQ120+ people and feed all the rest of the population? Sure, if you could organize them and direct them without too much overhead. And if they are perfectly compliant and don't want to do something else.

exporectomy 5y ago
That kind of is what we do. But the rest of the population isn't happy just being fed. They want status and luxuries the same as those "IQ120+" or highly productive people, so we have all sorts of politics about inequality and poverty and human rights and what-not. For people that are amply fed without producing much for anyone else.
- kingkawn 5y ago
  Feeding the poor allows the “iq120+“ to tell their absurd fantasies about superiority in peace
- smolder 5y ago
  It's not nearly every unproductive person's fault that they're unproductive. There's a lot of useful work to be done and a lot of people capable of doing it who are not currently aligned. It's often a matter of inefficiency in capital allocation, i.e. lack of funding for certain useful work because it's not easy or practical (without intervention, like from the government) to earn a profit doing it. There's also limitations on our ability to coordinate work, regardless of funding. Profitability is a mediocre proxy for the usefulness of work, and so we have only a mediocre ability to allocate labor usefully in our profit driven economy. Some of the best investments of money and labor in terms of profitability are even things I would call counterproductive.
- ZeroGravitas 5y ago
  They don't want status like the smart and productive people, they want status like the rich. Propaganda equating these two groups is a very popular thing for the rich to do with their money. Some would say that's unproductive, others would say it's smart (as long as they're the only smart person doing it, once a bunch of the smart people start playing unproductive games to work the system things get worse for everyone).
joris_w 5y ago
... and if we remove people who fail the IQ120+ test from power. Including economic power, meaning no more inheritance of capital.

exporectomy 5y ago

That kind of is what we do. But the rest of the population isn't happy just being fed. They want status and luxuries the same as those "IQ120+" or highly productive people, so we have all sorts of politics about inequality and poverty and human rights and what-not. For people that are amply fed without producing much for anyone else.

kingkawn 5y ago
Feeding the poor allows the “iq120+“ to tell their absurd fantasies about superiority in peace
smolder 5y ago
It's not nearly every unproductive person's fault that they're unproductive. There's a lot of useful work to be done and a lot of people capable of doing it who are not currently aligned. It's often a matter of inefficiency in capital allocation, i.e. lack of funding for certain useful work because it's not easy or practical (without intervention, like from the government) to earn a profit doing it. There's also limitations on our ability to coordinate work, regardless of funding. Profitability is a mediocre proxy for the usefulness of work, and so we have only a mediocre ability to allocate labor usefully in our profit driven economy. Some of the best investments of money and labor in terms of profitability are even things I would call counterproductive.
ZeroGravitas 5y ago
They don't want status like the smart and productive people, they want status like the rich. Propaganda equating these two groups is a very popular thing for the rich to do with their money. Some would say that's unproductive, others would say it's smart (as long as they're the only smart person doing it, once a bunch of the smart people start playing unproductive games to work the system things get worse for everyone).

joris_w 5y ago

... and if we remove people who fail the IQ120+ test from power. Including economic power, meaning no more inheritance of capital.