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Originally Posted by jayeff
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.
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Unfortunately, our school budgets are proportional to the local property taxes. This means that the wealthy areas have great schools and the poor areas have bad schools. If you attend a bad school, you are less likely to get a good education and even less likelier to succeed in the world.
Yes, there are exceptions and not every human being who falls into an economic class like that. But it is a fact that we pay individuals on welfare more for every child they have. It is true that the uneducated are having more children than the educated in our society.
We came to be based on millions of years of natural selection and development. The stronger, smarter survived. We are who we are today because over those millions of years, the stronger genes survived in our society and continued to reproduce. We are at a point in this world where that no longer takes place to an extent and us as a species may not evolve much more.