I'd certainly give credit to Mike Judge for "Office Space" and "Silicon Valley" but he well and truly hit the nail on the head with the prescient "Idiocracy".
In some ways the world of Idiocracy is far superior to ours. In no future of the real world would the government be willing to find and give authority to whoever is deemed the most intelligent person on the planet.
If we did that today things would look very different.
That was supposed to take place generations in the future.
If only.
This previous thread has some pretty good discussion and critiquing of Idiocracy:
I've wondered about its premise, actually. Anecdotally where I live (the Netherlands) I don't feel that "smarter" people get fewer kids than "dumber" people do. Is there any data about this? Say, #kids vs education level?
Studies [1] have been done, and from what I can see at a cursory look most show a negative correlation, especially for female IQ. I think the disparity between high income to low income counties in the US would show this relatively well.
Lots of interesting reading here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence I believe long-term fertility is largely eugenic, favoring those with desirable genes. Whether or not intelligence is viewed as desirable long-term, or if there is a shift, or short-term course-correction; that's going to take many generations to discern. In the US at least there is a perception that in the short term fertility and intelligence are negatively correlated. This is likely due to them erroneously viewing poverty as a proxy for intelligence, and there is a positive correlation between poverty and birth rate - https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...