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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
There will always be a percentage of your population that is dumb, simply because of the lack of natural selection in our society.
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And another gem. I think that is the first time I have heard anyone suggest that dumb people are only to be found among the ranks of the chronically poor. So is it just bad luck when someone manages to blow a fortune which his or her family has held for generations?
More people move down the economic ladder than up it. If that were entirely a consequence of individual shortcomings rather than something systemic, it would still indicate that "dumb" people can be found at every economic level. And since the vast majority of us fail to rise above the economic class into which we were born, you might even be able to make a case that very few of us are particularly well equipped with whatever it takes to succeed.