You write about "the state’s dismal record in persuading people to have more children." Not sure if you mean Singapore or all states. In any case, I looked at the academic literature and that seems to be wrong: it's actually easy to boost natality if you pay parents to have more children, make family formation affordable and you implement conservative sex and gender policies (no need for Islamization either). More here in case you wonder https://david9bf.substack.com/p/how-to-boost-fertility If the question is, then why didn't that work for Singapore, the answer is that Singapore (6 million residents) is as big as the Spanish island of Minorca (around 100k) so it's real hard to persuade people to make bigger families there. In Hungary, the TFR is up 16% since Orban is PM.
Yet higher intellect doesn't, generally, by itself provide access to power. Only that some of reasonable intellect can have a higher probability, other qualities permitting. Also, what sectors of society are we reviewing (eg politics, tech, science).
'Cognitive elites' aren't separate from their backgrounds, whether of ethnic group or in outward adherence to intellectually and ethically dominant cultural trends.
If somebody wants to write a book about genetics or meritocracy and life outcomes, one has to preemptively attack Charles Murray and The Bell Curve. It's what I called Murray's Law. David Reich did it with "Who we are". And Kathryn Paige Harden did it also.
They know the importance of genetics but don't want to be called an eugenicist. So they practice Murray's Law and preemptively attack him. Everybody who attacks Charles Murray practice assortative mating themselves. They marry and have kids with other academics, not instagram whores or footballers.
You write about "the state’s dismal record in persuading people to have more children." Not sure if you mean Singapore or all states. In any case, I looked at the academic literature and that seems to be wrong: it's actually easy to boost natality if you pay parents to have more children, make family formation affordable and you implement conservative sex and gender policies (no need for Islamization either). More here in case you wonder https://david9bf.substack.com/p/how-to-boost-fertility If the question is, then why didn't that work for Singapore, the answer is that Singapore (6 million residents) is as big as the Spanish island of Minorca (around 100k) so it's real hard to persuade people to make bigger families there. In Hungary, the TFR is up 16% since Orban is PM.
Yet higher intellect doesn't, generally, by itself provide access to power. Only that some of reasonable intellect can have a higher probability, other qualities permitting. Also, what sectors of society are we reviewing (eg politics, tech, science).
'Cognitive elites' aren't separate from their backgrounds, whether of ethnic group or in outward adherence to intellectually and ethically dominant cultural trends.
If somebody wants to write a book about genetics or meritocracy and life outcomes, one has to preemptively attack Charles Murray and The Bell Curve. It's what I called Murray's Law. David Reich did it with "Who we are". And Kathryn Paige Harden did it also.
They know the importance of genetics but don't want to be called an eugenicist. So they practice Murray's Law and preemptively attack him. Everybody who attacks Charles Murray practice assortative mating themselves. They marry and have kids with other academics, not instagram whores or footballers.
Meritocracy sounds like a good idea.
Maybe soon we'll actually get to try it out.
'Sliver' rather than 'slither'