Do you have any research backing up this position? It seems to fly in the face of every reputable study I've seen, which suggests the opposite is true - average genes, hard work, and sacrifice is not enough to "guarantee" anything.
There's much less corellation when you consider "future success" in terms of things like job performance, financial success, happiness, et cetera. IQ is obviously measuring something, because IQ tests are quite reliable, but the thing it's measuring does not seem to show a strong corellation with a lot of real-world goals.
It's one of those measurements that people _want_ to use a lot, and so it sees a lot of use, but the idea that you can boil general intelligence down to one number is fallacious to begin with, so many of the things it's used for are not useful.
This is literally one of the things the post we're commenting on is saying. High IQ people are not automatically successful and whatever effect high IQ may or may not have on future success is easily lost in other, more significant, factors.
IQ correlates with income more than any other factor. When you take away the correlation between socioeconomic situation and IQ (which admittedly there is), it correlates even more.
High IQ people are not automatically successful in the same way that tall people are not automatically basketball players.
You're making a lot of claims contrary to generally accepted research. It's invaluable, and not in the good way.
1. Pick practical degree, because you are poor and anything else is luxury.
2. Work in college, because you are poor. End up with 30k of debt because you are dumn and didn't get a scholarship.
3. Make 40k a year. (22% fed, let's say 4% state), 30k net. -10k rent, -10k expenses, 10k left.
4. Pay off college by 25.
5. Save up 50k by 30.
6. Masters degree by 32 with no debt.
7. Increase income to 100k by 45.
8. Congrats middle class pleb. (Which I am, though this isn't my story)
It might be "common sense" to you, but it's directly contradicted by all the data.
I completely agree that this is a huge issue. A large problem for kids from "bad" families is not having any idea what they "should" be doing, and by the time they figure it out, they may have already ruined their life and missed opportunities.