[Richard Kimball]

C. M. Kornbluth wrote a short story called "The Little Black Bag." In it, the mental inferiors had reproduced until the intelligent had retreated to a small hidden country where they could do research. They took turns going out as shepherds to the general population, hiding themselves as janitors and such. I think the TV show Eureka is somewhat based on this story.

Of course, eugenics predicted this many years ago. William Shockley, inventor of the transistor, once suggested that the government pay low IQ people to be sterilized, at the rate of $1,000 per IQ point below 100.

I have knowledge of a young lady, very sweet, but borderline mentally retarded. She has around seven children, and lives at a near total poverty level. Her husband accidentally killed one of the children when he was backing out of the driveway. She's been on welfare almost her entire life, and does not remotely have the tools necessary to cope with the complexity of living without someone looking after her.

Eugenics went underground after the horrors of the Third Reich, but it's starting to make a comeback. Many government agencies have an unstated agenda of (1) reducing the number of low IQ children and (2) preventing social stratification by IQ. One of the big reasons for changing college standards to to get a cross section of IQ levels into college.

[mylife]

Seems the opposite is true.

The lowbrows are reproducing up a storm while the intelligentsia mentally masturbate.

[1010RD]

IQs association with poverty is often ignored, but wholly prevalent.

Poverty, for the most part, is intelligence related. Bad decisions compounded.

[oblomov]

Social stratification by IQ is an inevitable product of a technological society that values cognitive abilities. IMO, the government should not engage in any form of social engineering.