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The problem with this is that it is utterly ahistorical. Like it completely ignores every observation you could make about how wealth was historically allocated
by bglazer 3y ago
The problem with this is that it is utterly ahistorical. Like it completely ignores every observation you could make about how wealth was historically allocated.
- Workaccount2 3y agoI mean, I just laid out how you end up with wealth dynasties. And this effect is observable in any population, it's not unique to the US, much less the the West.
- toyg 3y agoIf you think wealthy people are particularly smart in Europe, I have a few bridges you can handily take home.
- Workaccount2 3y agoMy point would be that non-wealthy people in Europe are even less intelligent on the whole.
- Jensson 3y agoI know a lot of wealthy people, none of them are stupid. They aren't geniuses but none of them had issues in college. I know a lot of poor people from military, a lot of them are stupid and struggled with the very easy material you have to learn in the military. And this is what statistics tells us, rich people are very rarely stupid, quite a lot of poor people are. The world isn't fair, but stupidity is such a massive drawback that it is basically impossible to get rich if you have it. Stupid people get tricked in deals everywhere etc, there is just no way for them to reach anywhere without extreme amounts of support.
- toyg 3y agoAh, but <insert US exceptionalism here>.
- toasterlovin 3y agoThe Industrial Revolution is ahistorical.