Rowlii writes: How can you be broke if there is a correlation between IQ and income? Do you count on lower IQ (like me) to finance your blog?
Come to France! The welfare state will take care of you.
More seriously, I love your blog.
Lower IQ people are definitely my lifeline. Consider that my IQ higher than that of 1 out of 1,340 people. I recently lived in a town of 15,000 people. Out of those 15,000, only ~10 had IQ’s as high as mine. So 14,990 people in that town had IQ’s lower than mine. After that, I stayed for a bit in a town of 7,000. There were ~5 people in that whole town who had IQ’s higher than mine. I now live in a town of 50,000. The town is majority Hispanic, so that skews the averages. But if it was a White city, there would be 37 people with IQ’s higher than mine in this town. But since this town is so Hispanic, the number is lower than that, but I don’t know how to do the math.
Literally, we very high IQ types need lower IQ people to even survive at all. We can’t blow these people off. Anyway in daily interactions, it is not always obvious that a given White person has a lower IQ than I do. In terms of whatever I am doing at the moment, their intelligence level seems to be about the same as mine. I do not commonly run into people who seem obviously less intelligent than me when going about my day to day business. In fact, I am rather stunned at how fast and how bright your average person is. My brain works very fast and that is probably clear to most people dealing with me. What I find fascinating is that so many people who clearly have IQ’s lower than mine really ramp up their brain speeds when they are dealing with me. I think they see my brain working very fast, and they just ramp up the speeds of their own brains to match mine in a sense. Most people with undoubtedly lower IQ’s than mine seem to be able to ramp up their brains to a very high speed when dealing with me. This is because my intelligence level is largely wasted. I do not believe that my intelligence is of much use when going about the day to day chores and business of your average person. You probably only need maybe an IQ of 100 or even less to function adequately enough to where people do not think you are dumb in ordinary day to day society. Ordinary quotidian society does not have much use for being at my IQ level, so my brains are sort of wasted in everyday society. And I will definitely say that people who clear have IQ’s below mine are for all intents and purposes just as smart as I am when it comes to the brains you need to function well in modern society. I figure that my brains are largely wasted. People like me are actually too smart. We are much smarter than we need to be.