It’s less an IQ issue than an executive functioning issue. The level of functioning required to get all gov’t paperwork, taxes, rent paid, census, keep voter registration active, plus any professional licensing, car licensing and care, home care, insurance payments...
Many high-IQ people collude (subconsciously) to make society as confusing & complicated as possible to lower-IQ people. It's taboo to discuss this 'cognitive oppression', because discussing IQ differences is taboo. Interesting how convenient that is for the cognitive elitehttps://twitter.com/TaniaArline/status/1033776636150337537 …
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Yes, there's also oppression of the less conscientious by the more conscientious, but IQ and conscientiousness are not much correlated.
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Perhaps. Here is another perspective: http://necsi.edu/projects/yaneer/Civilization.html …
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Good point: Some complexity is unnecessary (e.g. over-complex forms) AND talent blocking occurs (e.g. interview instead of objective test) AND the IQ and education needed for much productive work has increased.
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I believe a reason for increasing inequality is that increasing complexity is constantly raising the cognitive bar, hence lowering performance of low-skilled while providing even more leverage for high-skilled. Knowledge decays faster, so only discoverers are up to date.
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Good premise. This inequality though may be inevitable. The flip side is the circle of knowledge keeps expanding, individuals have so many more domains to choose from to flourish. World may have gotten more complicated, but Beckham woulda been nobody in 1846.
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What benefits are there for high-IQ people to do that? It seems like the incentives are there to enable lower-IQ people to thrive.
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They don't do it to oppress the low IQ people, they do it to elbow in front of their slightly-less-genius peers. Particularly relevant in academia. The low-IQ struggle is just collateral
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I think this is a huge problem. However, I don't think it involves a collusion. Systems tend to grow in complexity by their nature. And we have little consideration for the harm this complexity cause especially to those of lower cognitive ability.
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We should drop this faux-enlightenment idea that all people have the same potential if they receive the same education We should return to a society in which university education is only valued insofar as it benefits those who belong, and one which values equally those who don't
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