Classism is Inenvitable

[Dane S]

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Well, the stupid people are breeding with each other, right? This doesn't go against HMK's argument at all. People do the best they can.

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But if stupid people didnt have sufficient wherewithall to survive (ie they couldnt compete for a scarce resource that requires intellectual capacity) then they would be selected out of the species. No more equally stupids to breed with each other.

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But I think they are selected against as a group, in the long run. If you look at it as rich vs. poor, which the stupid vs. smart leads to, then look at Katrina. Do you think an equal proportion of rich people and poor people died? Natural disasters will always select against the poor. So will wars.

Poorer people also have more health problems and lower average life expectancy, meaning (I assume) that less of them survive to reproduce. They also tend to have more dangerous jobs.

I'm sure there are a lot more factors I could think of that show poorer people as a group being selected against in postindustrial societies. So I think if stupider people are likely to be poorer, then they ARE more likely to be selected out of the species. Perhaps it isn't as dramatic as the cave man days, but seems like it still happens.