Of course the smart people make it to the top of society. The question is whether moral people make it to the top, or can you use cronyism/patents/financial-manipulation/etc to make it to the top and genuinely steal from others in the process
Empirical data from every studied country and time shows the stereotype is correct. Denial of this leads to social disharmony: if the rich did not get their money fairly, they shouldn't have it.https://twitter.com/BryanDruzin/status/1081500532026486784 …
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Evidence generally shows that smart people 1) are more co-operative, 2) less criminal and antisocial, 3) more honest. I don't know about direct measures of moral behavior, but probably more of that too considering the link to crime. (Evidence for these summarized in Hive Mind)
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A question I’m curious about is what’s the IQ distribution of one of the Mexican drug cartels? I suspect high IQ would correlate with rank/wealth there as well.
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Good question. Yes, very likely.
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Of course that question is inspired by the larger point, which is that just because the smart are rich doesn’t mean the rich deserve what they have. It’s not inherently a Marxist/socialist point to make.
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Winning the genetic lottery is not fair at all. So it's pretty irrelevant to the obvious conclusion that income distribution is pretty unfair.
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They could be intelligent and earn their income through rent extraction rather than labor or investment. That they’re smarter doesn’t imply morality of how they acquired wealth.
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If they weren’t smart enough to make it, they wouldn’t be smart enough to keep it
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Here is the proof of what Emil said.
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Let's not play games, we know what the rich did to our demographics in order to suppress wages, it was an act of aggression plain and simple, now they want us to support them? Who cares, let them pay up. Treason begets treason.
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