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"The Great Class Swap also has parallels to Bell Curve Leftism, Andrew Sullivan’s description of the outlook of Marxist author, Freddie DeBoer, and his book “The Cult of Smart,” which makes a moral case for the less intelligent. The book is very critical of the modern liberal concept of meritocracy, which places moral value upon people based upon their success in life, under a framework of genetic blank slatism. DeBoer make the case for wealth redistribution on the grounds that a large segment of the population simply lack the inborn capabilities to achieve economic success. DeBoer is one of the few leftists brave enough to acknowledge the very taboo validity that inequality is a product of genetics, besides just a lack of opportunities and oppressive, hierarchical social systems. DeBoer advocates for radically restructuring society to take into account innate inborn inequalities, with solutions such as looser standards for education and not rewarding people financially just for their intelligence. DeBoer’s shortfall is that since he is still a leftist, he has an unrealistic obsession with absolute equality of outcome and neglects the importance of incentive structures in how much he wants to penalize the intelligent."
Nature needs meritocracy. I don’t know why but that’s the way it is. If an attempt to remove it is made, it fights to reestablish itself. This can be found in every part of nature.
Sorry, wokes, but that is the way it has been since the beginning of humankind--at least until recently. It's only lately that we have tried to short-circuit that mechanism and look what we have not: the defective constantly caterwauling and crying about inequality, even though they are indeed already being sustained by others. At one time, they would have been on the short end of the natural selection process. There was a time that unless you were smart enough to "hunter/gatherer" your own foodstuff or could perform a task valued by others enough to barter, you starved to death.
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