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[quote who="CobraA1" reply="16" id="2203496"] A voluntary socialism where you can voluntarilly give your money/talent/resources to a collective, or decide not to if for some reason you don't think the collective is headed in the right direction. An involuntary socialism where you must give to the collecctive, whether you agree with the collective and its principles or not. #2 is IMHO a very bad direction to go in, as it often becomes very corrupt due to

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[quote who="Star Adder" reply="22" id="2198967"] The point is that without an input of good genes the lower classes can never hope to compete with their masters. So what are you implying? That we should re-instate the right of prima notte or a breeding program that brings women of lower classes and men of the intellectual elite together for sexual intercourse (kind of a "pop and go")? Can't say I wouldn't like that as long as I wouldn't have to pay any child support. [/q

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[quote who="Star Adder" reply="19" id="2198923"] the 'elite contuine to breed amongst themselves and only themselves,... Might be. BUT: 1) They're breeding less. Why? For most of them everything else comes first. Having kids comes last. Also there is a saying here that goes:"A woman's intelligence is the best contraceptive." So go figure. and 2) Why shouldn't they? Dunno about you, but when I have a g/f I need to have one that I can actually talk to.

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[quote who="JuleTron" reply="14" id="2198646"] Genetic germ line modification will change baby brain weight, neuron density, microglial activity and stamina, and keep on tickin' through their children. Intelligence is G, or IQ, or a definite measureable quantity that does not change much over a person's lifetime and is primarily geneticly determined. That is incorrect. IQ is NOT determined at any point in a person's life. The inventors of IQ did NOT believe that they were determinin

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[quote who="Zyxpsilon" reply="7" id="2198028"] Also, genetics has a role to play. As the 'elite contuine to breed amongst themselves and only themselves, they are becoming smarter and smarter and more and more capable while the poor retain their flaws that prevent them from becoming rich. I dread to see what happens when true human genetic engineering like cloning and induvuialized intelligence enhancement make it onto the market. Genetic manipulations or even cloning won't change t

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[quote who="TinyCerebellum" reply="6" id="2198019"] Capatalism is nice in theory where everyone is equal and you have to pull yourself up by the bootstraps blablabla.....The simple fact is that 98% of mankind isn't genetically endowed enough to do that. Dooming in effect them, their children, their children's children to perpetual serfdom. (I have personal doubts it goes any farther than that. Inside 3 generations I expect to see robots replace the poor at least, at the point of a gun of

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I find that the people who believe in things like "Nothing is IMBA it's all 100% balanced it's the player who sucks." also belive fairy tales like "Your child could be the next einstein." and "the world's a fair place if you put in a solid day's work."

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[quote who="CocaColaAddict" reply="8" id="2186194"]Petit bourgeoisie are those who employ labour, but may also work themselves. These may be small proprietors, land-holding peasants, or trade workers. Marx predicted that the petit bourgeoisie would eventually be destroyed by the constant reinvention of the means of production and the result of this would be the forced movement of the vast majority of the petit bourgeoisie to the proletariat. [/quote] I would