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Who else is going to help them change their situation if they just get abandoned by their best and brightest?

You don't need to have a high IQ, to have a good moral base. If their 'best and brightest' leave, they can still plant crops and write just laws without them. Communities aren't based on engineering degrees, they are based on people, often times utilizing the most basic rules of authority which is force. After all, it is the civilized, intelligent, and empathetic man that often allow for people such as Bill Gates to walk the Earth a free, when a cudgel to his skull will fix that up nice and quick.

A based man, and society, is not a always a bad thing, just as a manual drive isn't obsolete because of the automatic transmission exists.