First of all, it is not so much individual intelligence that creates socioeconomic prosperity, it is the ability of the “market process” to combine human intelligence(smart or dumb) into a new type of collective intelligence. Let us very briefly get a feel for this so-called “market process”. In the modern social order new/superior knowledge arises in the minds of people/entrepreneurs/companies/orders and spreads via economic competition. For example, power windows, and rear view cameras, were all good ideas/information/knowledge that originally emerged in the minds of a few individuals/companies/orders. THE FREEDOM of the public to choose among competing auto-manufacturers motivated, and inevitably forced, other auto-manufacturers (competitors) to copy the new ideas/knowledge, and it is for this reason, thanks to economic competition, that all auto-manufacturers provide them and use the latest and greatest production techniques. As cost-cutting ideas emerge leading prices to continuously fall, new profitable ideas arise and once again spread via competition in an endless cycle of knowledge generation/innovation. For example, computers were once very expensive, but once the price of making them came down enough, people easily realized that every home could have them, which gave birth to our computerized world and the Internet and all the great things that flow from it. So we can see how the “freedom to choose” is what “turns on” economic competition, which is what motivates the creation and spread of superior knowledge/information and subsequent social order. It is this mechanism that has transformed mankind and taken white Europeans to prominence, and NOT anything specific to their genes. Even if it were true that Africans were not as smart as whites, this would not be the main reason why societies with larger white populations are more prosperous than Africans. Again, it is the economic system that really brings prosperity, not so much individual human intelligence. It is as if “the market process” can add up the IQs of people so that you are better off with 5 brains with IQs of 100 for a total of 500 “intelligence points”, than you are with 4 brains of 115 IQ for 460 intelligence points. But Dr. Watson, and most scientists have no understanding of what “the market process” is, how economic competition turns the entire planet into a vast supercomputer. They are stuck looking for answers in their tiny world of genes and believe that the answers to most things somehow have to be found there, especially those things that are largely shaped by “the market process” and cultural evolution. Since they do not understand these concepts they are limited to using the same sort of genetic hammer to stomp every nail.

Second is that IQ related testing is dubious at best. As Dr. Sowell explains:

“Like fertility rates, IQ scores differ substantially among ethnic groups at a given time, and have changed substantially over time — reshuffling the relative standings of the groups. As of about World War I, Jews scored sufficiently low on mental tests to cause a leading “expert” of that era to claim that the test score results “disprove the popular belief that the Jew is highly intelligent.” At the same time, IQ scores for many of the other more recently arrived groups — Italians, Greeks, Poles, Portuguese, and Slovaks — were virtually identical to those found today among blacks, Hispanics, and other disadvantaged groups. However, over the succeeding decades, as most of these immigrant groups became more acculturated and advanced socioeconomically, their IQ scores have risen by substantial amounts. Jewish IQs were already above the national average by the 1920s, and recent studies of Italian and Polish IQs show them to have reached or passed the national average in the post-World War II era. Polish IQs, which averaged eighty-five in the earlier studies — the same as that of blacks today — had risen to 109 by the 1970s. This twenty-four-point increase in two generations is greater than the current black-white difference(fifteen points).” (Sowell, pp. 8–9)

If IQs can change so much with socioeconomic achievement it does not tell us much about differences in mental capacity, and again, whatever differences might exist are insignificant compared to what really matters, the way the economy works. And why is it that if black people supposedly have lower IQs do they excel in music, comedy, banging the hottest white girls(too big a topic which is of monumental importance) and so much more? Don’t these activities require great minds? The bottom line is that when one looks at people bringing up IQ stuff or arguments about prosperity based on human traits, you are usually dealing with someone who has little understanding of the fact that whatever slight biological differences might exist between peoples of different populations are insignificant compared to how freedom and the market process creates a prosperous social order.

Let us also assume the “worst”, let’s make the ridiculous assumption that only super smart (silly assumption/myth IMHO) Ashkenazi Jews can do certain things and they are highly paid for it. As the great economist George Reisman’s reminds us:

“If two people both want to be an automotive engineer, and the better qualified succeeds, while the less qualified ends up as an auto mechanic, the better qualified one can raise the productivity of the poorer-qualified one by designing a better car for him to work on. If their positions were reversed, this would not be possible.” (Reisman, p. 357)

We all have enough intelligence to understand how it is in our best interest to have whoever is more able be free to live their lives to the fullest. Preaching an understanding of economics is the key. Enough! of this misguided focus on biology, race, morality and culture! Economic education is the key! It is the strategy ordained by God! Any deviation from the below is sinful!

“Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of civilization and of man’s human existence…All present-day political issues concern problems commonly called economic. All arguments advanced in contemporary discussion of social and public affairs deal with fundamental matters of…economics. Everybody’s mind is preoccupied with economic doctrines…Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party and in casting his ballot, the citizen implicitly takes a stand upon essential economic theories…As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny is at stake…all reasonable men are called upon to familiarize themselves with the teachings of economics. This is, in our age, the primary civic duty. Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to small groups of scholars and specialists. Economics deals with society’s fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen.” — Ludwig von Mises

Be a friend of mankind:

Mises’ Student George Reisman

“The solution to the present problem of massive, overwhelming poverty is nothing other than the science of economics. As should be increasingly clear, economics is a science which can make possible the construction of a social and political system in which human success is a feature of normal, everyday life everywhere. It is truly the humanitarian science, and only those who have studied it well and who are prepared to implement its teachings deserve to be called friends of mankind. The most important charity which true friends of mankind can pursue is to disseminate knowledge of this vital subject as widely and as deeply as they know how.” — George Reisman