• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    IQ is pretty much a bullshit measure that largely correllates to education and economic standing than anything else. There isn’t some grand variance in intelligence, actually, what’s at play is competing class interests and socioeconomic factors determining diet and access to education.

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      So if everybody is well-fed and educated, we could use it to let only the most intelligent people vote?

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        “Most intelligent” is a moving target, but by feeding and educating everyone people will in general have better skills for making good decisions, yes.

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          21 hours ago

          In the current style of democracy elections can be bought by playing ads to people and by making empty promises until there is a majority.

          If we need intelligence to make good decisions, but the majority is neither fed well nor educated well, people are trapped.

          Do you have an idea how things can be changed?

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            21 hours ago

            Organizing in working class parties directly, filling in the gaps in food and education, and directly opposing the system. Marxism-Leninism.