Gross inherited wealth is the societal version of terminal cancer. It is the actual underlying problem that has gone unsolved. Intelligence is not hereditary in humans. No amount of money can replace meritocratic hierarchy at scale. As long as that issue goes unaddressed, this place will crash and burn. Anything beyond an upper middle-class trust for life must be forfeit. That one change eliminates every problem person you know by name.
I feel like all of the ways to actually effectively solve it are just wildly immoral, unpopular, or just too far from cultural norms to really ever happen. We’re cooked.
Like an obvious way to deal with nepotism would be simply not allow people to parent children and make children property of the state.
Now, when you’re an adult you can earn whatever in the meritocracy and build whatever kind of life you want, marry whomever, and have as many kids as you want. You’ll just never know those children.
Gross inherited wealth is the societal version of terminal cancer. It is the actual underlying problem that has gone unsolved. Intelligence is not hereditary in humans. No amount of money can replace meritocratic hierarchy at scale. As long as that issue goes unaddressed, this place will crash and burn. Anything beyond an upper middle-class trust for life must be forfeit. That one change eliminates every problem person you know by name.
I feel like all of the ways to actually effectively solve it are just wildly immoral, unpopular, or just too far from cultural norms to really ever happen. We’re cooked.
Like an obvious way to deal with nepotism would be simply not allow people to parent children and make children property of the state.
Now, when you’re an adult you can earn whatever in the meritocracy and build whatever kind of life you want, marry whomever, and have as many kids as you want. You’ll just never know those children.
Problem… solved?