RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] speaking of apocalyptic horsemen...

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Matthew Ross wrote:

> I think at this point, unless we are willing to track each birth, and
> force each kid to go to school through college from that point on, we
> should base it off wether the parent has an education, as that shows an
> interest in higher learning that is often passed down, though nobody
> knows if thats genetic or environmental, either way, they're getting
> both from the parent. Second, as you said, is health and intellegence.

Sure.  (Health and IQ are correlated, by the way, and both are correlated
with education.)  So we work a little extra bonus into the system for
educated people who have kids.  Keep overall revenues the same.

You know what the problem is?  As soon as anyone talks about this, they'll
be attacked as if they're some sort of Nazi eugenicist.  All the experts
on eugenics and forced sterilization will use the public interest in the
topic to get their next 15 minutes of fame.  Everyone will forget that it
was a simple, harmless plan that could only have helped us, it won't be
enacted, and we'll move on to the next thing.

Mike
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