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It's my belief that equality shouldn't be the goal of capitalism, rather a fair representation of talent and productivity.

Someone hard-working with a 130 IQ versus someone depressed or maladjusted with a 90 IQ are, in fact, in entirely different classes. It isn't "dangerous" to admit that, it's simply reality. Capitalism does a decent job handling those extremes.

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The dangerous ideological heterogeneity I was referring to: see Ferguson, EU vs. Greece, US vs. immigrants... Regardless:

> Someone hard-working with a 130 IQ versus someone depressed or maladjusted with a 90 IQ

Capitalism doesn't do a "decent job handling those extremes," it does a fantastic job creating those extremes. The latter person you mentioned is either highly exploited and/or rejected from society and given a tragic, humiliating life. Our capitalism is divisive, unjust, and destructive.

What creates those extremes is genetics and poor parenting (considering that IQ is ~80% hereditary,) and in some infrequent cases environmental pollution (heavy metals in the government supplied water.)

Capitalism just deals with the results, in this case human capital.

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