Poverty and genetics

>>8807257
Well, yes. But it's slightly indirect. It's not that there is some genetic/polygenic encoding for "poverty" like there is for height or something.

But the modern economy rewards certain traits and punishes others, and those traits/tendencies often have underlying genetic components. g-factor/IQ, obviously. But also things like time orientation.

>>8807257
education > genetics

>>8807278
That's not what /pol/ thinks at all.

>>8807278
If that were true, the world would look very different. Education can be maximized within certain parameters for an individual, but some people's "ceilings" are much lower than those of others.

>>8807257

I don't have a ton of money, but I am extremely intelligent. I simply do not have the desire to be cutthroat or to lie in order to get ahead.

Yes desu, poor people are subhuman.

>>8807314
and?

>>8807257

Depends on how you define poverty.

Poverty as we know it - the state of lacking moeny - requires the concept of money and a civilization to use money, and systematically exclude certain classes of people from having lots of money. Human civilization is only about 6,000 years old which is not nearly enough time to create a phylogenetic signal for a trait like "being poor".

Social class is far from being synonymous with fitness (obviously, since individuals in poor countries have more kids on average and are therefore more fit). Social class is decided by social pressures and constructs.

>>8807314
/pol/ is dumb as fuck my friend, I'm sorry

>>8807387
/pol/ is always right

>>8807314
Which is enough to say it's true.

>>8807257
Poverty is a material and societal condition, it has nothing to do with the individual's "genes".

>>8807442
"Society" itself is a biosocial phenomenon; of course genetics will have a relation to it. It's not a 1:1 correspondence, but certain genetic compositions will be better at amassing "wealth" within various biosocial systems.

>>8807352
this is the real genetic and epigenetic part, OP.

If a set of parents are dumb, then they're not as likely to raise their kids well, who will in turn probably do the same. So, yeah. Pretty much.