>>10931049For the most part there is a correlation between wealth and intelligence, for the most part until 1900 poor people reproduced at a lower rate than the wealthy, people who were not successful in the upper echelons fell to the lower.
Lesser sons of kings became lords, lesser lords became gentry, lesser gentry became freemen, lesser freemen became serfs and lesser serfs died.
Of course the same thing happened with the middle class. It was a form of Darwinism the smartest thrived and least intelligent died.
But with the arrival of socialized medicine and the welfare state the bottom rung of society stopped filtering itself. And with the arrival of women in the workplace the professional class stopped reproducing at an acceptable rate.
People planning there children's future with plans on how they will pay for their kids university etc, and decide it's not financially viable to have more than one or two kids tend to be somewhat intelligent.
Eventually the inventions of the intelligent fall into the hands of the unintelligent, and next thing you know President Jamal of the United States insults President Abdul of France and next thing you know Abdul thinks a nuclear strike is an acceptable response.
