This is all very well, but half of the human race is below average in intelligence. What are they going to do?
Same thing they’ve always done.
Become teachers, politicians, and reporters.
“What are they going to do?”
Become Senators and Representatives.
Join the 47 percenters and go on government assistance.
Nailhead, meet hammer.
For thousands of years, much human work could be done just about as well by someone of well below average intelligence. Doesn’t take a particularly high IQ to be a galley slave or serf. In fact, intelligence was quite likely a hindrance to survival, as you’d probably more likely to “get above yourself” and be killed by someone above you in the social hierarchy. See the Jim Crow South.
The Industrial Revolution increasingly removed the demand for human muscle power, to the point where in advanced countries it is very nearly gone. As are the jobs that require only it.
The Cybernetic Revolution is in the process of doing the same. An IQ point falls out of the effective demand job market every year or two now.
New (and better) jobs are created, but most of those displaced are simply not intelligent enough to be retrained to perform them.
The world of the future will be immensely productive, which means that huge amounts of “stuff” will be produced with very low and decreasing human effort. Which means, by definition, more and more people will simply be redundant to the economy other than as consumers.
As its last great act of creative destruction the free market will destroy itself. It is by definition a mechanism for efficiently distributing scarce resource. When resources are no longer scarce, the market will disappear, at least over large areas of life.
I have no clue what will replace the market economy, but I worry it will be the all-powerful state.
Pass legislation to improve the intelligence of the lower half.
Pass legislation to improve the intelligence of the lower half.
Become porn stars, welfare dependents, and common criminals.