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Originally Posted by Abbaddabba
You're asking whether it's true, or whether it's something we should dishonestly teach people?
You're being unrealistic if you don't think people with crap lives come to this way of seeing reality on their own. It's about as common as it is for people who live great lives to espouse the virtues of an internal locus of control. People will believe what they want to believe.
This is simply false when we look at reality.
Asians have risen from terrible poverty and the aftermath of destructive wars to build robust, successful civilizations. Both in their home countries and in countries they immigrated to as peasants, as racially abused and ostracized minorities. The same is true of Jews. Clearly, your statement is false.
Cultures that believe in an internal locus of control - Asians are the strongest believers of this - crush everyone else, including the dominant wealthy race. While coming from far behind.
What we should be teaching, then, is internal locus of control, and mocking cultures that don't follow it (mostly the underachieving socialist minded cultures).
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Compensating ugly people only seems crazy because being ugly doesn't come close to registering on the top 10 list of injustices that people deal with.
Beauty is one of the top 3 most important traits for all kinds of success, and the top trait for some kinds of success. It is more advantaging than high socioeconomic status.
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but clearly there're plenty of people with high IQ genotypes out there who're duds, and it's generally because of lack of guidance.... the same thing that sinks people with low IQ genotypes.
What sinks people with low IQ genotype is their low IQ.
My outs (as someone with greater than 110 IQ), include:
- Government jobs
- Engineer jobs
- Coding jobs
- Management jobs
- Starting a business and succeeding
- Finding intelligent friends and being able to maintain their interest
- Much more
The outs of someone with an 85 IQ to improve their socioeconomic status, include:
- Laboring really hard
- Winning the looks lottery to marry up
- Dealing drugs & pimping
- Stealing
That's it, really. You could give these guys tons of confidence and money and 95 out of 100 wouldn't change their life in any way, or become any more useful to society. Intelligence is the limiting factor. All you can teach these people is to work hard - the opposite of the "handicap" philosophy.