Hopefully they are above average. Every year the minimum IQ for the employment market goes up a point or two. Because of automation many people have no skills worth the minimum wage. Eventually people with normal IQs will be forced out also. The trend is visible. Most of us will become human pets. While this has its advantages, the downside is pets are put to sleep at the time and choice of their leaders.
You packed a lot in that post...and I think that I agree with it all. I’ll respond:
“Hopefully they are above average.”
Well above average, thank you. We took their primary education into our own hands and did not rely on schools or bother following ANY so-called “development schedule” that’s out there. Bottom-line is that normal (i.e., not retarded) kids can be fluent (i.e., adult-level) readers by age 5, and can easily be 5 years ahead in math. But all that only happens when parents take control, which we did.
“Every year the minimum IQ for the employment market goes up a point or two.”
That is true. The easy jobs either get outsourced to India, or outsourced to robotics. But education goes in EXACTLY the opposite direction, hence, again, the need for parents to take control.
“Because of automation many people have no skills worth the minimum wage.”
That’s very true, and that is why the unemployment rate is so high. The minimum wage imposes a defacto-minimum skill requirement. Without that, they simply don’t get hired. Cut the minimum wage in half, lots more unskilled people will find work...simply because automation is expensive also.
“Eventually people with normal IQs will be forced out also.”
True again...and our education direction will assure it. A normal person following the traditional path (i.e., public schools) likely will wind up without ANY useful skills. The only hope for these people is that they can stay off of drugs long enough to get a job driving a truck.
“The trend is visible. Most of us will become human pets. While this has its advantages, the downside is pets are put to sleep at the time and choice of their leaders.”
Yep, once China owns us, I doubt that they will match our Social Security benefits. In other words, if you don’t work, it’s a one-way trip to “Pathways” as mentioned earlier. Scary future...but no one to blame but ourselves - particularly the conservatives that just had to get their goodies.