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Originally Posted by Manx
If such a thing were probable, at some point we would reach a state of wealth distributed precisely according to IQ - but that does not seem remotely realistic as it would then require a child born with an anamolous high IQ born to a poor family jumping to a rich income, and vice versa.
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That's where I see our country going. Anomalous high IQs do occur. I think that's where we get stories about "if you just work hard enough even the most disadvantaged can have the 'American Dream'." It wouldn't require a jump from poorest of the poor to richest of the rich in one generation to create a society stratefied by IQ. Again, I think that's where the US is headed. We're going to have an increasingly isolated high IQ class, that high IQ group will merge with the affluent, and a deteriorating quality of life for people at the low end of the IQ spectrum.