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Re:The Spaceballs Argument for Unconditional Basic Income by readthenotes1 on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:20PM (#34345035)
Those people with IQs below 70 are already uneconomical. I don't know where the line is for "we can find productive work for this idiot", but it's definitely higher than "cannot tie/Velcro shoes"
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Re:The Spaceballs Argument for Unconditional Basic Income by slowmovintarget on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @05:13PM (#34345774)
If military standards are anything to go by, it's roughly IQ 83 by law. Standard requirements are closer to 91, those this is a rough equivalence.

The military found that people with lower scores were not even up to correctly sweeping the floors consistently.

The actual test is not an IQ test but the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, which has rough equivalents to IQ scoring.

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