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"I fear that with the reappearance of a servant class the wonderful egalitarianism of the America we have known will fade, to be replaced by a much more hierarchical and status-bound order...This prospect disgusts me; I’m a child of the Flat Century, a libertarian."
"There is only one way out of this..We’ll need to figure out how to fight the economic and genetic drift towards an ability-stratified society by intervening at the root causes. Drugs to make people smarter; germ-line manipulation to make their kids brighter."
I dunno, you could try things proven to work like actually investing in education, and removing that particular wealth barrier. But then one would have to pay taxes. Biggest class barrier/sort is increasing cost of education.
Like any investment in equalizing a non-innate factor, equalizing education will decrease the correlation of success with wealth, which *increases* the correlation of success with innate ability and genetics. It's mathematically tautological from the definition of causation.
Imagine success is a combination of factors: innate ability, opportunity (ie family wealth, influence), and pure luck. If you decrease variance in any of these (say, equalize opportunity or eliminate luck), then by definition the correlation of ability and success increases.
We are so far from that point that attempts to fix the population genetics are pure wankery. Anything but admit that the doors of opportunity aren't fully open. If there's insufficient genetic mixing (which I don't admit) then wealth-stratified education contributes to the lack.
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