Originally Posted by jayeff

I'm done for the day, so my last comment is that we have not relied on natural selection for thousands of years. It would be easier to argue that since we raised property ownership and wealth in its various forms to be more important than personal characteristics, we have flown in the face of natural selection. Particularly once we added inheritance into the mix.

To that extent, if any natural selection at all still goes on in our society, far from being among the wealthy, it is among the poor, who have nothing except their personal strengths with which to get by.