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> IQ → credentials → income → heritable wealth

This doesn't make much sense. Lots of people with high IQ don't have high income because they were born in the wrong country.

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Relative to the peers in their own country they usually do. Globally, yeah people get shit hands. That is why doctors leave their countries, go through the trouble to relicense and practice in the US.

> Relative to the peers in their own country they usually do

What about people born in the wrong neighbourhood or even the wrong family.

I have a hard time beleiving IQ is a strong predictor of income. Anecdotally I personally know a lot of dumb people who make a lot of money and intelligent people who don't.

If anything I'd say social skills are probably a better predictor of income.

Obviously it's "on average". Of course not every single person will be ranked by their IQ.

I know a 5'3" guy who played in the NBA.

I’m not so sure wrong neighborhood/wrong family is that much of an issue in the US. There are a lot of routes out of that if you dig into athletics or schooling which higher iq people probably realize and tend to do. Even military can be a good choice. Full ride scholarships especially from marginalized backgrounds to qualified people really aren’t all that rare. Schools pride themselves on uplifting just that sort of student. And you can do military reserves and get school for free for the cost of the occasional drill, if you aren’t much of an athlete or scholar.

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