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Fertility in an IQ Currency Civilization - Eurydice Lives

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An often unexplored implication of variable average IQs by racial group is that IQ is not equally adaptive in every context. Few so-called rational assumptions are questioned less than a belief that IQ, despite not being equally present in all societies, is a sturdy and desirable foundation for global reward structures. It is taken for granted that a civilization which incentivizes IQ will do better on every meaningful metric than a society which incentivizes, say, beauty to the same extent and at the cost of other virtues to the same degree. It is perhaps an unsurprising development that groups with higher IQs have shifted national and global infrastructures to award more basic necessities and status goods according to IQ. After all, if you can shape the world after your own image, you’re probably going to. This effort is clearly and quickly being selected against, given that with very few exceptions, wherever this pattern occurs, fertility decreases to unsustainable levels. While IQ-

An often unexplored implication of variable average IQs by racial group is that IQ is not equally adaptive in every context. Few so-called rational assumptions are questioned less than a belief that IQ, despite not being equally present in all societies, is a sturdy and desirable foundation for global reward structures. It is taken for granted that a civilization which incentivizes IQ will do better on every meaningful metric than a society which incentivizes, say, beauty to the same extent and at the cost of other virtues to the same degree. It is perhaps an unsurprising development that…

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