Quote: (09-02-2013 05:30 PM)Kabal Wrote:
[quote] (09-02-2013 05:19 PM)master_thespian Wrote:
(09-02-2013, 10:07 PM)JimNortonFan Wrote: I am pretty surprised he didn't bring up the lack of a caste system in the USA. India has a very strict caste system, if you are born into one of the lower castes, the best life you could maybe hope for is working in a call center.
If you are born into a good family in India, you will have access to better education growing up and much more opportunities later in life. He did mention that the usa is not so much a country of have and have nots, very few people are lacking basic food and water and shelter, as he notes.
The U.S. has increasingly had a de facto caste system, as well, in a way--but one that is mediated through assortative mating and the heritability of IQ and other cognitive traits like conscientiousness and future time orientation.
Greater amounts of women in schools and workplaces means men and women are more likely to be matched based on cognitive traits.
Smart people will have smart kids. Dumb people will have dumb kids.
Observed socioeconomic mobility decreases--but not for lack of socially-imposed opportunity, but for heritability.
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