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That's going to be severely problematic for those in the bottom 15% of the intelligence distribution when there comes a point that there is nothing in society they could do that wouldn't be actively counter productive.

Modern society and its trajectory seems a fundamentally unsustainable enterprise.



Bottom 30% even - we must have a somewhat equitable distribution of opportunity, otherwise you end up with unrest.


The funny thing is... I would say for about a couple of hundred thousands years before the Neolithic Revolution, we did.


The spread between rich and poor was a whole hell of a lot smaller - industrialization broke alot of our carefully evolved social structures.


social media then amplified all of their flaws




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