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Lets say via some vastly successful social movement, a mad scientist who identified the dumb gene, or any other hypothetical and unrealistic scenario, the lowest 30% of human society via IQ were suddenly gone. Gone gone. Wiped out, gone. What do we think would happen? To save people some arithmetic, the 30th percentile would mean anybody with an IQ of less than 93.
I'm interested in views that treat this as an isolated thing for a given country, and answers that would treat it as a global everywhere thing. But I'm not really interested in "it's not feasible for this to happen" type replies. What I'm curious about is how a society would function in which large numbers of less intelligent people didn't exist. Is society harder to control? Does it suffer in particular ways? Does the society become less able to fight wars? More efficient? What industries would collapse? And why.
I find this an interesting thought experiment.
I'm interested in views that treat this as an isolated thing for a given country, and answers that would treat it as a global everywhere thing. But I'm not really interested in "it's not feasible for this to happen" type replies. What I'm curious about is how a society would function in which large numbers of less intelligent people didn't exist. Is society harder to control? Does it suffer in particular ways? Does the society become less able to fight wars? More efficient? What industries would collapse? And why.
I find this an interesting thought experiment.