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[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Living conditions are moreso determined by policy than by some liberal notion of bootstrapping. There are for sure smaller things like littering and maintaining property that have nothing to do with this but in the case of poverty stricken white areas it's mostly because there's policy implications IE zero investment in infrastructure thus zero businesses and that kind of thing. When there's no capital in the area the people are obviously going to be poor and when the government intentionally neglects them because they're white there's no real way of them building anything up. If you pressed a magic button that gave all rural Appalachians +40iq points with the stipulation that they have to remain in their current homes forever there would be little change compared to if the subhuman GOP just decided to actually give them basic amenities and invest in a little infrastructure so there's more jobs, as well as forbidding opioid peddlers to murder them.

Anyone who thinks IQ or anything like that is relevant with neglected rural white areas is probably top of the bell curve themselves.

[–]NeoRail 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, I think one of the interesting things that the pandemic lockdowns established is that modern post-industrial farce economies run more or less exclusively on banking voodoo. The vast majority of work today does not seem to be productive work at all. Even if we look at useful labour only, its efficacy will still be impacted by all sorts of government-controlled conditions such as access to raw materials, jobs, infrastructure, capital, the legal situation, etc. In fact, because of centralisation and managerialism, I think it would probably be harder for high IQ people to make a positive economic and social difference in their societies today than it would have been two centuries ago.

[–]Blackbrownfreestuff 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The vast majority of work today does not seem to be productive work at all

Can confirm. Worked in various corporate offices where entire departments were useless.