<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 14, 2019, 22:14 Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Whether the poor deserve to live in poverty is a normative question, but whether genetics explains poverty is a question of fact and it's rather extensively answered in multiple peer-reviewed publications. The poor are less intelligent, less conscientious, more impulsive than the non-poor (middle class and the rich), and yes, these traits explain poverty. </div><div><br></div><div>Rafal</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Recent research showed, Lamarckian style, that trauma-related olfactory memories are somehow transferred to the germ of mice and then to their children. (<span style="font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.3594">https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.3594</a>)</span> The era of genetics as ultimate determinant will be closing shortly. Experience flows back into the entire hereditary structure, whether it is through genes, body flora, methylation, histone configuration, memes, &c.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Such genetic supremacy against the poor is dancing on the edge of a knife and ends in genocide. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Genetic wounds will all be able to be healed soon anyway.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The question is,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Can the world handle 10 billion smart people?</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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