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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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
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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We are speaking past each other, I don’t doubt that what you said is true to some extent. I’m asking the question are patents criminal? Are subsidies and certain regulations criminal? Is the federal reserve criminal?
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Is newly generated wealth all going to the top of society because they’re increasingly more competent than the rest of us? Or is there institutional corruption involved? That’s the issue.
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