I’ve always wondered about this. While there is obviously a strong environmental component to intelligence, it is equally obvious that there is a hereditary component that is at least as strong.
Isn’t artificial assistance to those who are incapable of succeeding in society a rather anti-evolutionary approach? Given the relative reproduction rates of successful and less successful people, aren’t we breeding for low intelligence? Survival of the least fit?
Given enough generations, what could the consequences of this approach be?
Research that I have read indicates that about 80% of intelligence is genetically determined. However, character and morality are LEARNED behaviors and are much more important than IQ. BTW, the Ashkenazi Jews that the Nazis tried to wipe out have the highest average IQ of any ethnic group on Earth. I once looked for some of my mother’s family in Poland. Not one survived WWII and the concentration camps.