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Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by yorwba on Sunday September 03, 2017 @04:19PM (#15163638)
> There is substantially more value for all of us in allowing more resources to be distributed to those who are able to do more with them.

Don't you think that inheritance is a pretty bad way of achieving that? After all, traits like intelligence (which probably dominates the ability to use resources efficiently) are only about 50% heritable.

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Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by nnfy on Monday September 04, 2017 @12:12AM (#15165675)
When intelligence is literally the trait which enables development of science and technology, who in their right mind would not spend money on children of intelligent adultst with a 50% success rate? Dont you realize someone on the high end of the IQ curve would be exponentially more beneficial to society if given resources? How much have a couple hundred visionaries shaped our daily lives?

Why dont we spend more federal funds on gifted children? We watch the trainwreck that is our school system as we fail to match pupils in other countries at senior high school level. The issue is, again, not taxation, on the contrary, we are not spending enough where it counts because of the greed of the entitled.

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