The existential question of course is whether the current elite overproduction crisis is merely an artifact of wildly different quality in "elites" due to poor quality control, or whether taking tangible steps to really increase cognitive ability would generate equivalent crisis.
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no, it is rather the inflexibility of the elite market.
I think there may be strongly ethologically embedded dispositions that enforce hierarchy, yes. But I don't know to what extent these are the problem with today, or to what extent they will become a problem in the future
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no, you're being too essentialist about the elite. the elite is a sociological phenomena. you're basically giving up the goose if you don't try to embed it historically.
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Accidents compound advantages. There are sometimes accidents that exceed the power of advantages to make a difference, but to suggest that anything could be entirely sociological in nature, over millenia, seems foolish to me.
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