Do you feel like we're getting collectively dumber as a population, or smarter?

[opebo]

Keeping people in ignorance is an important part of the system, HJ.  Has the system changed?

[opebo]

80% of us are getting dumber, by 1 intelligence unit each, while 20% of us are getting smarter by 5 units each.

The "brains" divide will be larger and more stark than the monetary divide in a few decades.

Actually those two divides are precisely the same thing, and the money comes before the 'intelligence', never the other way round.

[opebo]

80% of us are getting dumber, by 1 intelligence unit each, while 20% of us are getting smarter by 5 units each.

The "brains" divide will be larger and more stark than the monetary divide in a few decades.

Actually those two divides are precisely the same thing, and the money comes before the 'intelligence', never the other way round.

There are no intelligent poors?

Hah, you caught me being terribly unclear.  What I had in mind was to say that intelligence does not 'lead to' having money, and that having money does generally lead to being called or considered 'intelligent' (among many other good things).  Keeping in mind of course that the idea of intelligence is rather debatable and subject to status.