Computer Technology, Genetics, and the Problem of Human Over Population

Posted by John Engelman, Raceology

Computer technology and the automation it makes possible are replacing the kinds of jobs most people have the native intelligence - let’s call it the IQ - to learn. At the same time, in the United States and internationally people with IQ’s below 100 are having more children who survive and reproduce than people with IQ’s above 100.
       
Computer technology is becoming more sophisticated. As it becomes more sophisticated, one must be ever more intelligent to design and program computers. One must also be more intelligent to learn a useful skill that cannot be removed by computers and industrial robots.
     
In a response to a letter to the editor from me Charles Murray wrote, “science is demonstrating that no one deserves his IQ. If, then, IQ is important in determining economic success in life—increasingly important, as John Engelman points out in his letter—why reward lucky people with high incomes?”
Group Differences - Commentary

As time goes on a growing percentage of the world’s population will become unemployable through no fault of their own. An additional problem we face is human over population.
 
I say after Bertolt Brecht, “He who laughs had not been told the terrible truth.”

I do not want the congenitally unemployable to starve to death. I do not want them contributing to the over population problem by having children who are likely to be unemployable too. I believe they should receive gernerous welfare payments for all of their lives, but that a condition for receiving welfare money should be sterilization.

I also favor a more progressive tax system. Because I believe in the importance of genetics in determining wealth and income, I see little moral significance in that determination.