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The actual problem is that we are not blank slates, and wealthy parents tend to be wealthy because they are more intelligent, and likewise give birth to predisp
by WarmWash 8mo ago
The actual problem is that we are not blank slates, and wealthy parents tend to be wealthy because they are more intelligent, and likewise give birth to predisposed-to-be-intelligent babies.
I always find it slightly ironic how mother nature gets so much reverence from ostensibly communal types, despite her being the most shamelessly power hungry entity ever conceived.
- simonask 8mo agoThis take is bafflingly unscientific. You are spewing pure unadulterated ideology here - a particularly ugly one too.
- WarmWash 8mo agoYes, behavioral genetics is the climate science of the left. If there are PhDs and university departments studying it, I'm not gonna be someone who sticks there head in the sand for the sake of their flavor of political identity.
- simonask 8mo ago[flagged]
- jimbokun 8mo agoWhat studies support your critiques?
- simonask 8mo agoThe amount of effort I’m willing to dedicate to counter wild Social Darwinism is very low. Please just do the bare minimum and go to Wikipedia.
- Jensson 8mo ago[flagged]
- simonask 8mo agoNo, I used it as a euphemism for “fascist”, which is a somewhat stronger descriptor than simply “wrong”. The notion that the deeply oppressive status quo is somehow fair and just is one of the worst post-hoc rationalizations that purportedly smart people can fall into. Open your eyes.
- triceratops 8mo ago> wealthy parents tend to be wealthy because they are more intelligent Not "more intelligent", just "unusual in some way". People can be wealthier than average for all sorts of reasons unrelated to intelligence (as defined by IQ). Here's a sampling of them: Being social and good at sales. Most successful real estate agents I've met don't strike me as particularly brilliant. Working a boring job, living modestly, and investing in index funds for 20 years. Winning the lottery (either literally, or by accidentally buying something cheaply that turned out to be worth a lot) Marrying rich and divorcing. Inheriting wealth. Being a successful athlete or entertainer.
- WarmWash 8mo agoIntelligence correlates highly with not having anti-social behaviors. So a lot of the time, it's not "being smart" that carries you to wealth, its avoiding the "disastrously stupid things" that stops you from being poor.
- atomic_reed 8mo ago[dead]
- triceratops 8mo ago> Intelligence correlates highly with not having anti-social behaviors. If we're talking about IQ, then there isn't strong evidence for this.
- hirvi74 8mo agoLooking at all the horrible and macabre weapons of warfare, destruction, and death that humans have created, I find it hard to believe those instruments were imagined, engineered, and developed by unintelligent individuals.
- WarmWash 8mo agoThey weren't. Intelligent people can be anti-social too, and usually with terrifying large scale outcomes. But thankfully, most crime in the aggregate is done by unintelligent people.
- ryandrake 8mo ago> wealthy parents tend to be wealthy because they are more intelligent, and likewise give birth to predisposed-to-be-intelligent babies What the actual.... This is on HN? How low have we sunk here?
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