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I always hear this from people who are unwilling to fix current problems. They always push it onto some future genius that is going to pop up and act as the sec
by imtringued 2y ago
I always hear this from people who are unwilling to fix current problems. They always push it onto some future genius that is going to pop up and act as the second coming of Jesus. In reality the average person is already more intelligent both in terms of education and IQ than people from a hundred years ago. The difference is that you are no longer losing them to mining accidents. Meanwhile the growth strategy glorifies the mining accidents as something that can be compensated simply by having more people. It's ok if our "geniuses" die, because we have eight times more. There is a deeply misanthropic logic behind this since one is discounting vast amounts of the population.
- GeoAtreides 2y agoThe average person has a higher IQ, true, but the problems we face also require a higher IQ (and higher specialisation) than in the past. It might sound misanthropic, but the average person is average. Nothing wrong with it, morally or otherwise, but they won't be doing revolutionary work in specialist fields, they will be raising families and be happy. Like I said in my original comment, we can get by with a smaller population with western levels standard of living, and then only be constrained by genetics.
- PorcelainSmile 2y ago[flagged]