[A]ristocracy, Meritocracy, Rule of Law, Market Economies, Manorialism(controlled access to land), voluntary mate selection, late marriage, nuclear family, migratory skilled labor, Low Tolerance Policing/high trust requirement, aggressive hanging, militial warfare (volunteer infantry), harsh winters, Malthusian farming production, plagues, economic shocks, and disasters, have the following effects:
1 – force improved long-term, mate selection
2 – lower generational rates of reproduction
3 – limit reproduction to those who are in the genetic ‘middle class’ and upward.
4 – redistribute resources upward to the middle-class and away from lower-class reproduction.
5 – cull lower classes aggressively.
This is important because every person who’s ‘problematic’ at the bottom is six times as costly as every person who’s ‘beneficial’ at the top.
The basic math is like this: to organize a society in the voluntary organization of production you must get 80% of the resources into 20% of the population, and that 20% of the population must be ‘intelligent’ enough to make use of it. That means you must get your median IQ somewhere in the 100-106 range before you can really do much toward developing a high-trust market economy. And you want to get as close to 112 to 115 if you want to out-compete the rest of the planet with innovations sufficiently to live what we in the West consider a marginally different quality of life.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
